Pratt Lake

 Beautiful day for a hike to see fall colors. We drove up I-90 to hike to Pratt Lake in the Alpine Lake Wilderness. This is an 11 mile round trip hike with an overall 3,000 ft gain.
We started seeing some fall foliage near the beginning of the trail. The first mile shares the trail with the way to Granite Mountain, before turning off to the left.

 We passed some small creeks.

 Before long we were hiking in the snow.

 The trail continues to go up through the forest with a couple of trails diverging from the Pratt Lake Trail.

About 4 miles from the trailhead, a clear spot allows you to look down on Olallie Lake.
I love the mixture of bright fall colors against the snow covered evergreens.

Soon after this, the trail splits off, one way to Island Lake, and the Pratt Lake trail continues to the right and descends via switchbacks down 800 ft to the lake basin. We found everything covered in snow.

Across the basin we saw Kaleetan Peak covered in snow.











View of Pratt Lake from the southeast side

 The fall foliage lit up by the sun in the snow was so beautiful.













Wide angle shot of Pratt Mountain and Pratt Lake

Lots of fall color along the lakeside trail.

View of Pratt Mountain and Pratt Lake from our lunch spot on the north shore.

 On the hike back out, the sun really lit up the fall foliage.

Another wide angle shot from the east side of Pratt lake

 The sun warmed up the weather and the snow began melting. There was less snow of the trees as the snow melted.

 View of Olallie Lake as we hiked back to the trailhead.

















another small creek

some of the fall colors that caught my eye