Wind River Range - Aug 30- Sept 4, 2013
On our way back to our campsite, we passed a Lama Camp. It is quite funny to watch these guys raise their long necks and watch the ears perk as we walk by.
This is Seneca Lake, where we walked along the perimeter on our way down to the lower camps. Thought the smooth grey look of the mountain was a nice contrast to the tundra and water.
The view was so awesome of Seneca Lake that we thought it would be a good time for a portrait.
This is what we thought was the foot or outlet from Seneca lake, but was just a narrow part of the lake, flowing into the other half.
The other half of Seneca Lake. This was a very large lake in terms of lakes in the mountains.
I really enjoyed these rock strewn open fields over the last few days and this is just another one that leads down between two lakes. At this point, we have turned away from Lake Seneca and heading towards the trail head.
As we stopped for a break, looking down into the valley that we will be dropping into.
Here I turned around and faced back from where we had come that day.
Across the valley, I zoomed in on a lonely, shallow lake. This will be the first day in awhile that we move back down into the tree line and really the first night that we slept in within the trees.
As we cross the crossed a bridge over a pretty good flowing creek, we thougth this was a neat picture.
If you remember a few pictures back, about 5 miles back, from where we started, those two peaks were right behind us in some of the pictures.
A lot of this area reminded us of Yosemite park and all of its granite landscape. Take out the trees and this would be just like it. The lake was quite inviting.
One of two pictures of the late day sun hitting on the peaks in the distance. I don't remember it being hazy as it is in this picture.
This is the second picture of the late day sun hitting the ranges. Again, on the left side, far back is the peak we were near earlier in the day.
Our final night in the mountains and really the first night we have camped within the trees.
This is the lake we camped by the last night. What is washed out in the background are some beautiful mountains. I was sitting in our kitchen when I took this shot.
As the sun was dropping behind the mountains, I thought these cloud formations were really neat. I didn't realize that it meant rain when I woke up the next morning.
I just missed getting this hawk sitting at the very top of the tree, with the sun directly pointed athim, but it still is a pretty good shot of him taking off.
Zoomed in glimse of the pyramid like peaks for off in the horizon from our campsite, with the sun going down.
The next day it rained on us from the time we got up, got our stuff together and walked out of the mountains, therefore no pictures. This is from the road on our way out, looking across the range with the omnious clouds.
From a local stand point, Freemont Lake, is the recreational heaven. You can drive here within 30 min from Pinedale and have all the mountains the lake surrounding you.
Another look at Freemont Lake, looking towards Pinedale. Notice the rain int eh background. On this day we had some pretty bad storms blow through. Glad we were out of the mountains for those.
What is really interesting, the lower plains in this area were totally satured with Sage Grass with some Aspen groves mingled in.
A closer look at the sage grass growing on the plains. We could not figuere out why this grass grew so predominately here, but guessed the mountains soaked up most of the rain water.
One last look out at the plains before heading back to civilizaiton. An awesome trip without a doubt!