eagle lake

since im a dork, i must have been a Boy Scout right? Right.

and starting at the prime age of 14, i used to go backpacking each summer for about a week a "50 miler" they called it because, well, we went 50 miles.

the second year i went, we went to this area that is northwest of Lake Tahoe in California. all of our 50 Milers were in the Sierra Nevada mountains. i was on google maps earlier looking at the old marching ground and i noticed Eagle Lakes. i couldent help but laugh. and if only we had google maps back then. see, on our second or third day out we were planning on staying at Eagle Lakes. we had hiked all day and finally got to the place. then when we arrived we planned to pump water as we always did. we used water purifiers and pumped water from lakes.

these water purifiers have filters in them that filter out all kinds of things. so when we arrived, we were very disappointed at seeing the lake a large algae grown nasty fester of a goiter on the wilderness. and all the trees within about 10 ft of the lake were dead. imagine that. i think we called it "hell lake" or something like that. we spent more time cleaning our filters than we did pumping water at hell lake. and it was hell.

on the other hand, not far away is one of my favorite places ever, Downey Lake.