Lake Mountain Hike

I guess we haven't done anything interesting since last summer, based on the status on our blog. However, Rebecca and I did something interested today. We climbed Lake Mountain, which is behind our subdivision. It was about a 3 mile hike up, with a climb of about 2800 ft. We went up the ridge, making our own trail. Rebecca and I have climbed partway up for the last couple of weeks, but this time we went all the way up.


At several of the sub-peaks, we found piles of rocks, placed there by previous climbers.


It was cloudy part of the time, which made for interesting light patterns on the lake. This is from partway up the mountain.


Here is Rebecca looking very cute.


Here is a view from the top of the mountain.

On the way down, we walked down the dirt road, and that was about another 6 miles. Tiring, but cool. We've wanted to see the top of the mountain since we moved here, but none of our vehicles can make it up the dirt road. We just had to use our off-roading legs.