11/9, Sunday. Late start, hiked to Upper Granite Lake.
A large parking lot. I never saw this lot filled. First 1.8 miles zigzag over gentle trail along Granite Creek, until crossing a nice substantial bridge. Then, no view of the creek, and the trail gets a bit boring, if not for the fall color. In spring (see my last time here in June), there would be some challenging creek crossings. Now, despite of the rain lately, all is very easy.
After 3.5 miles from TH, reached a junction.
This past April, a few of us and continued up to Thompson Point and Revolution Peak on snowshoes.
Now, we took the spur trail down to the lakes.
The lower lake doesn't have trail.
The trail goes to the shore of the upper lake.
Nice, but not dramatic. A little too late for the light.
On the way back to the junction, saw this log with tiny mushrooms (a kind of bird's nest), and some little shiny red berries, on the ground.
Turned on headlamp the last mile.
Too bad that the night falls so early now.
