The temperature was heading into the low sixties and there was only a thin cloud cover. Looks to be the best hiking day in the next week, so I headed up to Blanchard Mountain, just south of Bellingham. The first thing I noticed was that it was a lot easier walking when you are not wearing snow shoes. The trail was a pleasant ramble through the trees with the sunshine and cool breezes off of the water.
Along the way, I passed an woodpecker condominium. Apparently, the housing crash hit them to, because it was unoccupied.
After three miles, I came to Lilly Lake which, depending on the temperature, can be a beautiful little lake or a mosquito infested bog. Today it was a beautiful little lake.
I hiked around the lake, spurred on by a sign that read lake loop, and the mistaken belief that the sign implied there was a trail going around the lake. It was more of a notion that you could get around the lake hacking your way through the bush. There were fresh signs of beaver, but I didn’t see any in the lake.
The lake had lots of interesting other things in the water and pretty much kept me entertained for an hour as I hiked around it.
and the outlet stream was blocked by a log that kept everything floating on the surface back where it formed interesting patterns in the current.
I really, really liked the patterns and took so many pictures of it that even I couldn’t look at them all. And then it was time to head back down the hill to where the trail broke out
into a lovely view of Padilla Bay.
The peak in the center is Mt Eire in Anacortes and the the right is Guemes Island.
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