A picture of a motley group meeting up at our garage at 530am on the day of the hike.
The scenery was fantastic right of the bat. My dad even decided to hike the first few miles with us.
The route was quite difficult with day 1 from Sunrise to Mystic Lake, being much longer than expected. We were pretty beat by the time we got to camp but still managed to get a quick swim and much needed wash in. Some of us literally fell into camp, and didn't come out until the next day.
Day 2 was a nice recovery day walking from Mystic Lake to Carbon River at only 4.9 miles. It was downhill so it beat up our legs a bit, but didn't take much time and allowed us to have a relaxing afternoon to play, wash, and enjoy the river.
This isn't carbon river, actually a bit smaller, but you get the idea of how raging they are. The louder sounds in the background our boulders rolling along the bottom of the river.
Here is one of the many waterfalls we saw, this one perfect for cooling off in, and next to it the picture of the carbon river bridge.
Day 3 was a bit more brutal from Mystic Lake to Mowich Lake via Spray Park. The ranger suggested it and said it was a bit more difficult but drastically underestimated the actual difficulty. The first climb in the morning was around 3100 vertical feet in just over 3.5 miles. Some of it was even over glacier
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It was beautiful and after the climb it was basically all downhill. A highlight being one of the waterfalls at the bottom
Mowich lake was beautiful
, but the campsites there were horrible. A big gravel parking lot with a few kitty litter boxes to put tents it might be the best description.
We choose a late night pick up getting home at 3am over a night camping there.
All in all a fantastic trip
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