Beyers Lakes

Beyers Lake Lunch Spot
 

Old Man Mountain
 

Curious what was on the other side of the Black Buttes,  6 members of the 8 o'clock group headed up into Blue Lake for the advertised "relatively level 12 miles RT hike to Beyers Lakes".    When we got to the destination it was already 1:45 and we found that we had not gone 6 miles, but 7.  And it had not been level.  The hike had been gorgeous with it's many meadows and huge outcroppings of granite.  We had run across only a single hiker, a gun-totin' camouflager, who hadn't made it to Beyers Lake.  So we had the back-country to ourselves.  The clouds were building and although we expected rain, we managed to only get the cooling effect of same.  That is lucky because of the trail were quite rough and could have been much more difficult if wet. 

Beyers Lakes are beautiful and would make a great backpacking trip.  We all wished we could stay longer and bask in the beauty but after a belated lunch we figured we had too many miles before us to chance the wait.  Our muscles were aching and toes were burning but we made it back with only a couple of tumbles (mine) of unserious consequence.

Lunch at Beyers Lake
 

Next week we hope to go the long off-road vehicle trip into Sterling Lake with off-trail meandering among various lakes back to Mossy Pond. 

 Above pictures from Frank.

 

 

Maureen wrote: Turns out the other group was right below at Forcyce Creek...here are her pictures: