Dusty Lake seen from the shore.
Waterfall feeding into the lake, on the trail back up.
Now we're walking along the top of the Dusty Lake cliffs seen in previous photos, looking down. Here's the lower Dusty Lake trail,
the upper trail, with lakes B and D slightly visible in background,
two views of Dusty Lake as we get closer,
and finally a spot directly above the lake.
We then retraced our path along the cliff top to the main road, and back to the camp site for lunch.
That afternoon: north along the main road to trailhead of "H Lake". (That's not an arbitrary name I made up;
it's really called H Lake, because of its shape.)
Now heading west on Ancient Lake trail. Part of H Lake is visible in the distance. Closer by is the beginning of a river that feeds into Ancient Lake.
Lake "A".
The first waterfall.
Good picnic spot.
River just before it drops into the second waterfall.
Two views of second waterfall.
Final descent of the river into Ancient Lake. Note the steepness of the trail. This is one of the toughest trails in the area.
Ancient Lake. Some kids (not visible) were swimming around and jumping off the big rock into the water.
Back to camp site after trudging back up Ancient Lake trail, and main road, in the hot sun. We pulled our yellow raft into Quincy Lake for a late-afternoon cruise up and down the peaceful waters.
"Row faster!"
"Aye, aye, cap'n!"
Space restrictions prevent description of our further adventures (on Sunday).
Closing shot of beautiful Quincy Lake.
Our "project" for next trip: find a trail to two additional lakes visible beyond Ancient Lake in this photo. We've been to Ancient Lake several times before, but this is the first time we noticed these other two lakes. Steep cliffs on the east and north sides of Ancient Lake make it difficult to walk around it; we may need to find some other approach to those other lakes.
