Return To The Ice Caves via Lake 22! (Tour d’Joko)
Because my blog readers (both of you), can’t get enough videos of me tromping through the woods…
I really love the Cascade Mountains! From exploring their early history as a center for mining of dish-washing powder, to finding new, yet familiar places, I can’t imagine mountains offering a better variety of rugged beauty, geological interest, verdant foliage and hospitable hiking.
I went out on Monday on a return visit to the Ice Caves of the northern Cascades. When I was last there four years ago, a massive storm the winter before had covered the trail with so much blowdown, that I was turned back!
Given that the trail to the caves was merely one mile, not much of a challenge, I decided first to hike to a place with the rather un-inspiring name: Lake Twenty-Two.
I saw some surprising things on my hike. First off this sign:
It’s a sentence fragment. I didn’t cut anything out of the photo. What is it trying to say?!
Then, there was the pika. Remember I used this creature in one of the “name that animal” blogs? It was quite a thrill to see one in real life.
This guy is of the American Pika species.
Enjoy!
If you listen carefully, you can hear me fart at 5:58 in the video.
Enjoyed this. Production values (farts notwithstanding) were pretty good and you left us with the off-screen drama that you would possibly die of thirst or hunger as you trekked the 3.2 miles/1,500 descent back to civilization. That builtempathy for the protagonist
I was distracted by trying to figure out the fact that a lake was at a 1,500 foot elevation. I kept wondering how the lake replenished— and where the hell was bigfoot
Lake 22… Hmmm sounds ominous and then Ice Caves…
What is in the Ice Cave?
Aliens?!
Who designs UrAlls trails? The Marquis De Sade? I’m glad you didn’t break your ankle.