Sunday, October 7, 2018
On our last day of the weekend Greg and I packed up and checked out of our cabin then set off to hike the circuit around Clear Lake before heading home on Sunday. We expected we would see good fall color and we were not disappointed:
We hiked clockwise from the cabins and soon found ourselves at the north end of the lake with a view looking south where we could see a bit of the Three Sisters above the store:
More fall color:
We connected with the McKenzie River National Recreation Trail and crossed Fish Lake Creek, which was dry (Fish Lake, where Deb and I stayed last winter, is less than a mile from here):
Love the color of this lake!:
More fall color:
We passed Great Spring although I never would have known this was a spring. It simply appeared to be a little lake inlet. This is considered the source of the McKenzie River:
Hiking south along the lake’s eastern shore, we could now see across to the store where we had started. At this point of the lake that is quite narrow:
Hiking on:
We passed Cold Water Cove Campground, then crossed a footbridge over the lake outlet at the south end:
After that it was a quick and easy hike up the western shore back to our car. This was a really pretty fall hike, with lots of vine maple and other vegetation in color.
