Lake 22, Mountain Loop Highway, Granite Falls WA - April 2024 

This is one BEAUTIFUL hike with a taste of everything, from waterfalls to the lake basin, old growth trees, rocky pocket gardens that reminded me of a Japanese garden in their perfection, and a trail that has some challenge in its rocky 2nd half, and (this time of year) with a snowy circumnavigation of the lake. This has to be the optimal time - a progression from spring/summer to winter/spring in the basin with snowy craggy peaks ringing the basin. The waterfalls are also full and simply gorgeous.
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