We drove up to the Heart of the Hills area of Olympic National Park to hike up to ake Angels. It is a 7.5 mile round trip to hike with 2,300 ft of gain. After visiting the lake, we continued up the Lake Angeles trail for another 1/2 mile to an overlook of the lake for an overall hike of 8.5 miles and 3,000 ft of gain.
We would see some wildflowers along the trail.
We found a spur trail leading out to a rocky ridge, here we found some alpine wildflowers in bloom. I want to come back on a clear day to see the views from here!
It was cloudy when we started the hike. This trail is mostly in the forest, Here we could see a sun dog through the fog in the trees.
Shortly before the spur trail to the lake, there is a pond seen through the trees.
At Lake Angels the clouds obscured the views of Klahhane Ridge, but we had a nice view of the lake.
We took a short lunch break, watching the clouds move over the lake and decided to continue up the Lake Angeles Trail to see if we could look down no the lake.
As we hiked up above the lake, we saw some fresh bear scat and tracks going up the ridge.
Wide angle view looking down on Lake Angeles.
We found a spur trail leading out to a rocky ridge, here we found some alpine wildflowers in bloom. I want to come back on a clear day to see the views from here!
View of Lake Angels from the ridge
some of the wildflowers and other flora we saw along the trail today:
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