Ancient Lakes

We drove out to Ancinet Lakes(near George WA) to hike today. There are many connecting trails here, our route today was 5.2 miles with 400 ft of overall gain. The wildflowers are beginning to bloom. We saw very few people here today. Some of the views as we wandered around.

Some of the wildflowers we saw today:

Cheese Rock and Split Rock Loop

We drove to Teanaway Community Forest, parking at the end of the West Fork Teanaway Road to hike to Cheese Rock and Split Rock making a loop out of some of the many trails here, including a side trail to Cheese Rock. Our route was 5.5 miles with 700 ft of overal gain. The snow levels are very low, with at least half of our route snow free. The first part of the trail had the most snow/ice coverage, starting with the bridge over the Teanaway River

View of Cheese Rock

Cloudy views at Cheese Rock

A short ways down the trail were a cluster of 4 large boulders, some had interesting columns, cracks and/or holes

View of distant snowy peaks from along the trail

Large boulder near Split Rock

Views of Split Rock from various angles

As we continued along the trail we had some views through the trees, the rock shelf near Cheese Rock

snowy enchantment peaks

zoom of a cloudy Mt Stuart and other Enchantment Peaks

Looking down on the Teanaway River