Today started out as a short hike up to Gold Cord Lake with Mark Simpson. But we started to follow the pieces of trail heading towards the mountains behind the lake. The farther we walked the more we started considering the idea of maybe walking all the way around the lake. This lake is surrounded by huge granite boulders and in many places one wonders if it is even possible to get through them. But we picked our way from rock to rock and once we reached the halfway point, we sure didn't want to backtrack. There is a fairly defined trail for about 3/4 of the way until on the south side we encountered much larger rocks. We scrambled up some moss-covered slopes in between the biggest boulders. But we did finally need to come down through the rocks to reach the trails along the front side of the lake. It was really kind of exciting to finally find our way all the way around the lake. I have seen other people wandering around on the far side in the past, but never knew if it was reasonably possible to go all the way around. It was really fun and very beautiful. I enjoyed seeing the little mountain lake from a totally different perspective. Instead of the usual 2 mile trail we walked 3 miles total.
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| The historic Lynch Cabin on the lower part of the trail |
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| View of the lake from the far side |
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| Our route from the GPS on my Apple Watch |
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