Alpine Lakes Help!

Post by **fishnislife** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:00 am

Hey WL.com fans. The site needs your help in building a larger database for Alpine lakes in your area. Lake descriptions, pictures, hiking details and any information you can provide. Even finding Alpine Lakes that WL.com does not have yet and putting something together for all to see. This site has been built by us and for us, so let's keep paying it forward.
I have been working on a couple in my area and just wanted to throw this challenge out to anyone who might have some time to help build the Alpine Lake section.

fishnislife

Website · Post by **The Quadfather** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:15 am

fishlife, I spend a lot time the alpine lakes, and so does Rolland W/Ralland (sp?) I will try and take photos and keep records to pass on. glad you brought this one up. Anyone else who is into the alpine lakes stuff should check out:

http://forum.hilakers.org/forum/

http://www.watrailblazers.org/

jbball50 · Post by **jbball50** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:39 am

I could ask my friend for some pictures of some lakes up in the Olympic Mountains, I know they have some, just not sure which lakes. I know they have pics from Lena Lakes, Mildred, and Flapjacks.

Post by **fishnislife** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:53 am

Sweet links Quad. Great resources, thanks.
That would be sweet jbball50. Just make sure they know were their pictures are going and they are ok with WL.com using them. (I think that's what Mike would say)

Just for example, here is one that I have emailed to Mike that is not yet in the database:

Lena Lakes - Lat: 47.597705841, Long: -123.154312133

Lena Lakes are located near the Jefferson-Mason County line North of the Hamma Hamma River. Lower Lena Lake can be reached by a moderated-kid friendly rated hike up trail #810. The hike to lower Lena is 6.4 miles round-trip and can take you about 3.5 hours to accomplish. You are rewarded with a great spot to take a rest and enjoy atop picnic rock which overlooks the amazing crystal blue lake. Lower Lena has 14 campsites for overnight trips. Check with a Forest Service Office for availability. Upper Lena is another 7 miles roundtrip from lower Lena and is a difficult rated hike, but also offers the adventurer with a couple campsites for overnight stay. Both lakes hold Rainbow, Cutthroat and Brook Trout.

Here is another that is in the database but doesn't have a detailed description:

Silver Lakes

The lakes are accessed via the Mt. Townsend Trail 15 miles northwest of Quilcene. Silver Lakes can be reached by a difficult rated hike up Trail #842. This hike is 11 miles round trip and can take up 6 hours. The trail is heavily wooded the first 2 miles and then opens up with views of mountains and lakes. The trailhead elevation starts at 3,200 ft. and upper and lower Silver Lakes reside at 5,300 ft. Both lakes have Eastern Brook Trout with reports of Rainbows in the lower Lake.

Do a write up on the hike and lakes however you want. Just be helpful and insightful to someone that might be considering the hike and looking at it for the first time.

fishnislife

bionic_one · Post by **bionic_one** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:17 am

You may want to add to the Lena Lakes portion something like:

"The trail Upper Lena Lake is snow covered in winter and stays that way as late as May or June. This hike requires snow travel and good route finding abilities as much of the trail is above 4000ft elevation and some areas are very exposed."

Oh and for my own personal info, I have never been able to find information on fishing seasons up there. Is it just open year round or is that covered by NFS somewhere that I didn't find?

Post by **fishnislife** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:56 am

bionic_one wrote:You may want to add to the Lena Lakes portion something like:

"The trail Upper Lena Lake is snow covered in winter and stays that way as late as May or June. This hike requires snow travel and good route finding abilities as much of the trail is above 4000ft elevation and some areas are very exposed."

Oh and for my own personal info, I have never been able to find information on fishing seasons up there. Is it just open year round or is that covered by NFS somewhere that I didn't find?

They are open year round. I always ask the forest service station about the place (rivers, lakes) when I am checking in, getting a map and buying a Pass if needed.

fishnislife

sellis_414 · Post by **sellis_414** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:07 pm

Here is a guide book (Hiking/Backpacking is where the main alpine lakes are located) for all the hikes in the Wenatchee Area (Chelan, Douglas, Grant Co. there are a few others). Listed throughout the guidebook are lakes. Hope this helps!

http://www.justgetout.net/Wenatchee/pages/page/?pgid=69

Website · Post by **The Quadfather** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:03 pm

Sellis 414 Check that link again, I saw a bunch of stuff, but no reference to a fishing guide book.

Post by **Mike Carey** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:14 pm

thanks everyone, I'll try to get working on this my next day off. I know there are a bunch of pictures of Alpine lakes on another thread as well. And thanks to fishnislife for lighting the match.

sellis_414 · Post by **sellis_414** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:31 pm

The Quadfather wrote:Sellis 414 Check that link again, I saw a bunch of stuff, but no reference to a fishing guide book.

There is no "fishing" guide book. The guide book has different hikes you can hike to.. Some of which are "Alpine Lake Hikes"... There is about 25 lake hikes in the guide book. Some of which are alpine lakes and some are other lakes not accessable by vehicle.

jbball50 · Post by **jbball50** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:59 pm

I asked one of my friends that goes, he said he'll post some pics on his facebook so I can get them off there, do you just want them e-mailed to Mike or just loaded on this thread?

Post by **Mike Carey** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:11 pm

e-mail to me with details of the lake (name, county,species, size if known) would be great. Thanks!

salmonslayer117 · Post by **salmonslayer117** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:42 pm

Here's a couple pics for ya. This is Long Lake in Lewis county. Well up into the foothills past Ashford off of Skate Creek Rd.
Absolutely awesome lake. Stocked with rainbows for sure. Not sure of anything else though. Still patches of snow on the sides of the road up there when I went this morning. Tricky to get to but you can drive all the way up to it.