TR: Thousand Island Lake 5/24-5/26
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TR: Thousand Island Lake 5/24-5/26
Hello all. This is my first post here. I came across this forum while researching trip reports to Thousand Island Lake. Over the Memorial Day Weekend, I went up from the Rush Creek Trailhead to Thousand Island Lake, then to Gem Lake, and back out.
Most of the trail from the Rush Creek TH to Thousand Island Lake is exposed and was free of snow. There were some patches of snow before reaching Spooky Meadow and Agnew Pass but nothing worth carrying snowshoes. TIL was mostly frozen over with night temperatures around 25F.
The trail from TIL to Gem Lake was covered in snow above 9500' where it meandered through the dense forest. Most of the snow was hard packed and was easy to traverse. The mosquitoes are starting to make an appearance at Gem Lake. Night temps were in the low 40s.
I want to share some photos from my trip. Enjoy and thanks for all the great information posted here.
francisco
Silver Lake Campground, Carson Peak
Silver Lake
Going up the trail south of Agnew Lake
Agnew Lake
Spooky Meadow
Summit Lake
Banner Peak
Thousand Island Lake
Thousand Island Lake, Milky Way
Thousand Island Lake
Banner Peak, Clark Lakes
Agnew Lake
Most of the trail from the Rush Creek TH to Thousand Island Lake is exposed and was free of snow. There were some patches of snow before reaching Spooky Meadow and Agnew Pass but nothing worth carrying snowshoes. TIL was mostly frozen over with night temperatures around 25F.
The trail from TIL to Gem Lake was covered in snow above 9500' where it meandered through the dense forest. Most of the snow was hard packed and was easy to traverse. The mosquitoes are starting to make an appearance at Gem Lake. Night temps were in the low 40s.
I want to share some photos from my trip. Enjoy and thanks for all the great information posted here.
francisco
Silver Lake Campground, Carson Peak
Silver Lake
Going up the trail south of Agnew Lake
Agnew Lake
Spooky Meadow
Summit Lake
Banner Peak
Thousand Island Lake
Thousand Island Lake, Milky Way
Thousand Island Lake
Banner Peak, Clark Lakes
Agnew Lake
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Re: TR: Thousand Island Lake
Very nice. Thanks for the TR and pics.
Also, welcome to HST!
Seems like a lot of members here were at 1000 island last weekend.
Also, welcome to HST!
Seems like a lot of members here were at 1000 island last weekend.
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Hi PackoR and welcome to HST ! Thanks for a great trip report. I always like to see the night shots.
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The Milky Way shot is amazing! Thank you for sharing.
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hi Francisco,
Great shots; I'll second the compliment on the Milky Way photo! My wife is looking for a new camera: could you tell us what you were using?
Thanks,
cg
Great shots; I'll second the compliment on the Milky Way photo! My wife is looking for a new camera: could you tell us what you were using?
Thanks,
cg
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Re: TR: Thousand Island Lake
Hi Francisco,
Welcome to HST! Thank you for taking time to post you first TR, which turned out
wonderful! Hope to see many more in the future.
CG,
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Welcome to HST! Thank you for taking time to post you first TR, which turned out
wonderful! Hope to see many more in the future.
CG,
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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Great report, thanks for sharing.
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Nice Pics. Now we can really see how much snow is out there. Thanks for posting.
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