{"id":7776,"date":"2022-11-26T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2022-11-26T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:34:07","slug":"crystal-lake-and-its-vicinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=7776","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Lake and its vicinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the beginning of September, my East-Coast friend visited me to hike a little bit. So, I took her on a couple of day hikes.<\/p>\n

Our first hike was to Crystal Lake in Rainier NP.<\/p>\n

I visited this lake twice before, but both times it was under snow (the lake locates at an elevation of 1700 meters). So, it was a chance to see the lake without ice.
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The lake approaches are famous for their Mt Rainier view (first photo).<\/p>\n

The lower lake is very shallow, with a muddy bottom.<\/p>\n

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Crystal Peak is right above the lake with the same name. We hiked it once, there is a nice view of the lake from the peak.<\/p>\n

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Upper lake. This time – no ice and snow. Moreover, the water was so warm, that I enjoyed swimming (real swimming from one lakeside to another and back, not just a quick dip). Another nice thing – the lake has a clean sand bottom. It is a very rare thing for a local mountain lake (actually, I have never met another one yet), usually rocks, mud, or both of them.<\/p>\n

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I was not alone swimming in the lake, but others preferred the floater.<\/p>\n

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After the good swim, we realized, that still had plenty of time, and decided to hike on the pass above the lake.<\/p>\n

The lake below us.<\/p>\n

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And he pass just on the left.<\/p>\n

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Rainier dominates above everything here.<\/p>\n

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We are on the pass. The peak on the left is the origin of the three ridges and, accordingly, of three valleys – one with Crystal lake, one in from of us, and one behind the ridge.<\/p>\n

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There is a trail to the next ridge (famous PCT, by the way), and we follow it to see what is behind the ridge.<\/p>\n

Valley on the left.<\/p>\n

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The trail to the next pass.<\/p>\n

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Behind the second pass is another lake.<\/p>\n

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And this is not Rainier anymore, this is Adams.<\/p>\n

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Going back.<\/p>\n

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The trail to our pass.<\/p>\n

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Our pass.<\/p>\n

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Back to our valley, way to the lake. Rainier again.<\/p>\n

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This year mountain ashes have plenty of berries. Siberian (or Russian) folk belief says, that this means a very cold winter. I hope it is not work in America.<\/p>\n

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On the lake, we had lunch and another good swim.<\/p>\n

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Under the eyes of the local marmots.<\/p>\n

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And the way back. Lower lake.<\/p>\n

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Nice lake, want to go again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

At the beginning of September, my East-Coast friend visited me to hike a little bit. So, I took her on a couple of day hikes.<\/p>\n

Our first hike was to Crystal Lake in Rainier NP.<\/p>\n

I visited this lake twice before, but both times it was under . . . → Continue reading Crystal Lake and its vicinity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,317,327],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}