Dusty Lake Backpack

Jay Adventure!, Central and Eastern Washington, Overnight Backpacking April 30, 2016May 17, 2016Backpacking, Dusty Lake Backpack, Hiking 2 Comments

April 30th, 2016

Another fun filled weekend with the Peninsula Wilderness Club. Last year it was at Ancient Lake. This year we tried the much less crowded Dusty Lake which is right next to Ancient Lakes, just one ridge over. It's slightly further to get to and very overlooked. We actually enjoyed camping over here more than at Ancient. There was just a lot less people over here.

Desert Bouquet

Cell phone shot of Hayden at the start of the hike.

Dusty Lake

2016-04-30 Dusty Lake backpack-16 — At our campsite, there was a piece of electrical conduit. I took it and tied a shirt to it and propped it up. It flew proudly in the stiff breeze that day and helped Megan and Julia find us.

Hayden was brave and went for a swim. A very short swim!

Linda and Paul at camp.

Hayden, Megan, and Julia at camp.

Paul and I took a short hike to the other end of the lake. We saw a baby rattlesnake in the grass here.

I hate graffiti, but you have to admit this was nicely done.

Trail along the lake shore

Flowers along the trail

A look back at our camp from the other side of the lake

Panorama of our campsite.

Sunset

Ready for the camp fire!

Sunset!

Ready for the camp fire.

Campfire time!

Group shot. Getting ready to head out.

2 thoughts on “Dusty Lake Backpack”

Steve
May 18, 2016 at 9:15 am
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Nice trip report, Jay! The lake does look nice – and the lack of people is a definite plus!
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- JayPost author
  May 18, 2016 at 9:36 am
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  Thanks Steve. It was pretty nice. I think the consensus was that everyone enjoyed Dusty more than Ancient. I’m sure we’ll have more trips here in the future.
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