Lake Angeles

 Drove out to Port Angeles today to hike up to Lake Angeles. This is a 7.4 mile round trip hike with 2,350 ft of gain. The trailhead is on a short road that turns off just before the entrance station to Hurricane Ridge. Today there was a parking area plowed out a short distance before the regular parking area. There was snow the entire route. The snow was mostly packed down, so we did not bring our snowshoes. With the warmer weather, we did do some post holing as the snow is beginning to soften.

 An interesting snow formation alongside the trail.

 The trail is through the forest for the entire hike. Bridge over Ennis Creek.

 Ennis Creek

 lichen on the tree trunks

 The morning sun gave us a warm glow between the trees

 Moss lit up by the sunlight

 Lake Angeles with Klahhane Ridge. We did not walk across the frozen lake, as today"s temperature was well above freezing.
We took a nice lunch break here and had the lake to ourselves.









Pano at Lake Angeles.

On our hike back down, as the snow was deep enough to protect the meadow, we decided to cross the meadow and explore a bit.

 Decided to climb up the snow covered boulder across the meadow to see if there were some views.

The view from the boulder was so so, but 

a short ways on the other side of the boulder was this nice view.

zoom of Mt Baker and the Dungeness Spit below

 Another view from the meadow. We did not see any other hikers until after this short side trip.