Thursday Morning Hike With Bogie To Lake 22

At the day job, we are given three personal holidays and you have to schedule them in advance. I've been saving mine because hiking season has been off to a slow start with all the snow pack accumulated this winter. Even though there are still reports of significant snow on top of Mount Dickerman, decided to give it a go. It is a long trek from my new home south of Seattle and traffic was awful. We were about 30 minutes from Mount Dickerman when I decided to settle for the Lake 22 hike. Although the late start was a factor in this decision, the cloud cover was the real concern. I've trekked all the way to the summit before in conditions like that. One time the cloud cover burned off (excellent!) and one time it didn't (no view).



Trail activity was light, as you would expect on a Thursday morning. The views were nice on the way up.



The lake was pretty as always. This picture of me is on one side. I have a another picture of me below from the opposite end of the lake.






A nice set of shots as we progress around the side of the lake. You can see the bridge off in the distance in one of them. That is where the trail comes out to the lake.



Here you can see Bogie on top of a mini ice cave. In the first picture, if you look up to the top left, you can see a mammoth ice cave. A few hikers were up there and you could tell the cave mouth must have been 30 to 40 feet tall!



Here is that picture I told you about from the opposite end of the lake.



Slightly bummed out that we missed doing Mount Dickerman but the decision did seem to be the correct one. The cloud cover didn't seem to burn off while we were in the area and the summit would likely have been less than ideal.