Lea and I have hiked up to Lake Winnemucca 3 times in the past 10 days because the wildflowers are peaking right now. The peak period only lasts for about 2 weeks each summer and that can happen anytime between the beginning of July to mid August depending on the weather. Most years we miss it because we're deep into work, but this year it happened just before we started working. This is classic High Sierra country with the elevation of the hiking trail ranging between 8,000 and 9500 feet.
Lea has been shooting a lot of high definition video, I've shot some stills and of course a lot of video with my pocket camcorder. We'll both be posting videos but until then I thought I'd post a few photos.
This is what it looks like when you're walking along the trail looking down ..... looking up is a whole other experience.
Indian Paintbrush mixed in with Lupine.
Some of the trees, dead and alive, along the trail.
The view of Red Lake as seen from Frog Lake, which is a short side trip off the trail to Winnemucca Lake. Lea and I have done a lot of fishing at Red Lake ..... don't ask me why they call "red". As you can see .... there was a storm brewing. We didn't get rained on but we did get a good thunder and lightning storm. I would guess that the elevation here is around 8500 feet and I recall looking up from Red Lake when we were fishing and always seeing some patches of snow above.
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