Most viewed - Big Boulder Lakes, Boulder Chain Lakes loop, September 6, 2018
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DSCF0510.JPG12 viewsI reach Big Boulder Creek flowing down from the lake basin I entered 5 days ago. I know I am close to Livingston Mill trail head.
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DSCF0512.JPG12 viewsSome fall color in the fading light. It is now 7:45 pm. Half an hour later I arrive at the trail head. There is just enough light to drive most of the 4 mile dirt road out to the highway.
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DSCF0383.JPG7 viewsMountain Goat climbs the slope just south of the stream between Sapphire and Cove Lakes, Big Boulder Lakes.
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DSCF0418.JPG7 viewsThe view north to the saddle, bisected by the shadow of a passing cloud, half the brilliant white sedimentary limestone still in sunlight.
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DSCF0456.JPG7 viewsThis low point, to the southwest, I soon realized, was not the correct saddle to descend to Hummock lake.
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DSCF0502.JPG7 viewsA patch of fall color in front of Lodgepole Lake prompts a closer look.
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DSCF0348.JPG6 viewsArriving at camp: inlet Island Lake, Big Boulder Lakes.
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DSCF0350.JPG6 viewsDawn; inlet Island Lake, Big Boulder Lakes.
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DSCF0352.JPG6 viewsWest toward Cove Lake; inlet Island Lake, Big Boulder Lakes.
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DSCF0356.JPG6 viewsThe route west to Cove Lake; inlet Island Lake, Big Boulder Lakes.
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DSCF0389.JPG6 viewsMountain Goat, climbs higher, just south of the stream between Sapphire and Cove Lakes, Big Boulder Lakes.
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DSCF0390.JPG6 viewsDusk, Peak 11272 to the south, above my camp at the inlet of Cove Lake.
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