We drove up to the end of the Asahel Curtis Road off of exit 47 on I-90 to the Annette Lake trailhead to hike up to Annette Lake this morning. the hike is 7.5 miles round trip with 1,800 ft of gain, with the majority of the gain in the first 2 miles. We only saw 2 other hikers coming down as we hiked up and had the lake to ourselves. There were quite a few hikers heading up as we were coming down. This trail is in the forest, we saw some lovely moss under the trees at the beginning of the hike, but not much undergrowth.
After 0.2 miles the trail crosses Humpback Creek on a wooden bridge, great views of the creek.
After a mile or so, there were lots of berry bushes, ferns and other plants growing under the trees.There are a few small streams along the trail, some going under bridges, others running over the trail.
As the trail crosses a few scree fields, we had some view of Humpback Mountain across the valley.
Some shelf fungi growing on a large cut log.
The trail levels out for a while before reaching Annette Lake.
Our first view of Annette Lake
A couple more views along the lakeshore
Most of the clouds were gone as we hiked back down the trail, view of Humpback Mountain.some of the wildflowers and berries we saw along the trail this morning:
