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Lake Alpine's Inspiration Point Hike
(Sunday, October 06, 2002 near Lake Alpine, CA)
See also my photo album from
this hike.
Quick notes below - full report coming later...
- Started hiking at 10:20
- easy finding lakeshore trail from car, followed that for a ways
- junction was signed for the lakeshore bit, but not the intersecting bit -
looked like it went in the right direction tho, so we took it
- pretty steep hiking, quite sore/stiff/fatigued from yesterday
- realized that it was 0.7mi from junction to IP, not from the car to IP -
total RT would be 2.2, not 1.4. No prob
- feet were happy in Tevas
- guidebook's adminitions of steepness and exposure greatly overstated
- nice fellow pointed out utica and union res's
- rocky trail climb put us at IP
- lots of rocks arranged into letters/shapes
- decent views would be much better if there was snow about
- no view of spicer, alas
- Felix took pic of 2 families, also from bay area
- wandered around for a few, taking pics, then returned
- finished at 11:50
Hike Stats:
| Distance: |
~2.2mi |
| Total Time: |
1h 30m (including dwell time at the point)
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| Total Climbing: |
a few hundred ft |
| Difficulty: |
2 |
| Scenery: |
3 - would be spectacular if there was snow around |
| Trail condition/markings/etc: |
4 |
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