Jared Heldoorn

Jared Heldoorn

Backpack to Garnet Lake

09/13/17

We left from Agnew Meadows and took the Shadow lake trail to the John Muir to get there. The views along the way were breathtaking and Shadow Lake was beautiful. Our original plan was to spend two nights at Garnet Lake but our first night there we got hit with some pretty crazy thunderstorms, at one point there was lightning every 10 seconds. The weather reports had said about a 15% chance of thunderstorms and it really did come out of nowhere. We knew that we might get caught in some thunder storms so we were prepared but make sure you take rain gear and a tent with a rain fly. We ended up only staying the one night because one of the party members was starting to exhibit signs of altitude sickness and We wanted to get him out before the next thunderstorms hit. The valleys that the lakes are in create a perfect environment for storms (being up there in one was truly awe inspiring). Small note is that in the limited amount of time we had to go fishing we caught 3 good sized (9 inch or so) brook trout and they made for a great meal! I will definitely be back here next year and probably so the entire loop. The whole area is gorgeous and I don't think I will get tired of being up there.

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