
We were lucky to get one of the few campsites available for a week, at the Avalanche Creek campground, and then headed off to its namesake: Avalanche Lake.
Avalanche Creek is aptly named...

...looking like an avalanche just happened. It was a very well-maintained trail, though, and had a lot of traffic on it, so for a while the going was pretty easy. We also found a couple of cute kids stuck in a tree along the way, and decided to bring them with us up to the lake.

Unfortunately the going got a little rough after we realised it wasn't the little 3/4th mile hike we had thought. But at least Sylvia still found things to smile about!

Finally, after much tribulation and soul-searching about why we started on this blasted hike, we made it! The views were pretty spectacular.

A kind stranger at the edge of the lake offered to take a family picture, and we couldn't turn her down.
