For our anniversary this year, we combined a trip to Mammoth Lakes where my husband was doing a wedding with a getaway trip. We had never been to this area - only driving past many times on 395. So off we went!
I love driving this area because of all the ranches - if you know me, you know I love cows!
So much snow on the mountains still and this was nearing the end of June.
The drive from our house to Mammoth is about 3-3 1/2 hours which is so nice. Not as much travel and more time to vacation. Since we left early, we planned to have breakfast once we arrived and then hike.
I chose this restaurant - Good Life Café.
It was a beautiful morning to eat on the patio.
I had the eggs benedict - so good!
We decided to do the hike that went to Duck Lake but passed some smaller lakes along the way.
The first one was Arrowhead Lake.
I'm not sure the elevation that the trail started at but we were high enough for there still to be snow in June.
So much water in this region.
This was Skelton Lake.
We hiked further and came to Barney Lake. Wow!
It didn't seem as deep as the other lakes. It was definitely more green in color. A lot more snow still left as we were climbing higher in elevation.
Do you see it? There was a group of guys that climbed up and were going down the snow like they were sledding.
So many streams and water running.
We hike around Barney Lake and then start heading up. And do I mean, UP. We will be going on switchbacks up and over THIS.
Here is the view of Barney Lake from the other side. Gorgeous!
Simply beautiful!
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