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Thread: Lake Blanche Trail
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07-05-2011, 09:15 PM #21
Well ****. Talk about a completely horrible trip. I got totally soaked from head to toe from rain. Thunder and lightning wasn't very fun being up at the top of the mountain. I don't think I got any good shots... specially since it started raining so I had to quickly put everything away. Annnnd, my bad knee started acting up. Yippie. Haha. I hate Lake Blanche.
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07-05-2011 09:15 PM # ADS
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07-05-2011, 09:29 PM #22
You were in that storm that is killing the Cottonwoods? Wow, thats gnarly! It looked pretty active here in Cottonwood Heights. Few strikes down here as well.
Minus the raging storm, how was the trail? Melted off, lake unfrozen? We want to do an over nighter up there soon. I have hiked that place so many times, and everytime, I am thinking, "I should have just stayed overnight." Hows the skeeters?
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07-06-2011, 12:41 AM #23
damn. sorry to hear that. about 7:30 i was looking up there thinking "i wish i was there." looked like awesome light breaking through the storm.
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07-06-2011, 04:51 AM #24
If you have a shuttle available it is nice hike to hike up Mineral Fork early (before the ATVs get revved up), cross the divide and come back down past Lake Blanche. I've done this hike a couple of times and enjoyed it both trips.
RP
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07-06-2011, 09:06 AM #25
Yes, I was right in the middle. Haha. Wasn't that fun... well, it was, but it wasn't. Anyways.
The trail is perfectly clear till you get about 1/8 to the top. Then there are 3 or 4 snow patches that you have to carefully walk across so you don't go sliding down the mountain. Haha. The first lake that I came to (whichever that one is) is completely clear. I'm not sure about the other lakes. I really didn't feel like exploring anymore. Haha.
There was some pretty amazing light going on up there. You would have gotten some beautiful shots, I'm sure.
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07-06-2011, 12:24 PM #26
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07-06-2011, 01:40 PM #27Jeremy | Google+
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07-06-2011, 03:08 PM #28
You got caught in that storm? Wow!! I was fishing at East Canyon and saw the action to the south east. It looked intense and we went through a huge thundershower on the way up there. I was driving east on 215 and it just started dumping outta the blue (literally). It started just past union park and ended right when we got up the hill and started north. Crazy! I got a couple pictures of a rainbow in that direction.
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07-06-2011, 03:09 PM #29
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07-06-2011, 08:45 PM #30
It is pretty sweet. Puts you up by two mines, and the foliage in the fall is unreal. Wildflowers in the summer are awesome too. Not as picturesque as Mill B South, but also a lot less traffic. And I think the overall views of the canyons north from up there is a bit better IMHO.
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07-06-2011, 08:46 PM #31
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07-06-2011, 08:52 PM #32Jeremy | Google+
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07-06-2011, 10:10 PM #33
no. i'm referring to the little basin east of where lake blanche is. upper lake blanche? the little basin just west of superior. there's a small spring up there. not sure what it's really called i guess. takes another hour or so to hike up from lake blanch to the spring. you can also climb up and over and walk down to alta pretty easily from there.
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07-06-2011, 11:49 PM #34no. i'm referring to the little basin east of where lake blanche is. upper lake blanche?
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07-07-2011, 04:55 AM #35
An old Trip Report from the Mineral Fork-Lake Blanche Loop in case anyone is interested.
RP
http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthre...752#post321752
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07-07-2011, 09:32 AM #36
I know where you are talking about now. That is right below Cardiac Pass. I guess I was thinking direct east, when actually it is more S/SE direction from Mill B South Fork. Yes, the topo I have shows that spring. I have caught a glimpse of it doing the loop from Mineral Fork. But have not spent any time up there. Maybe have to check it out next time I am up there. Looks pretty secluded.
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07-07-2011, 10:26 AM #37
yeah, it's pretty sweet up there. very remote feeling for the wasatch. and superior can catch some really sweet sunsets. i forgot that the little spring does make kind of a pond, though the actual spring is up the hill from it a little ways. all under snow right now though.
the route up there follows perhaps a social trail or a game trail? kinda tough to follow, but from lake blanche looking east, you go up the slope on the left, and try and stay pretty high but never gain the ridge between mineral fork and mill b south. there is reasonable camping, but close to treeline and pretty exposed when a storm comes rockin' through.
view heading up
view from cardiac pass looking toward lake blanche
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