Lake Annette
January 31, 1998
Saturday promised to be sunny, if somewhat windy, so I chose
Lake Annette as a location that should provide some nice
scenery, without presenting much of an avalanche hazard. I
arrived at the parking area around 10:00, and there were a
couple of other cars already there. The snow along the road
to the trailhead was soft enough that I was glad I'd brought
snowshoes along, but once on the trail the snow is well
packed in most areas, and there were several other folks
without snowshoes doing just fine. In places the trail has
been packed down two feet wide, with 6 inch "curbs" on either
side - there's no difficulties in following it to the lake.
Nice views of Humpback on the way, and a very nice view of
the north face of Abiel once at the lake - snow, ice and rime
encrusted.
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