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Silver Peak, Washington State

On a trip to WA state I had the pleasure of hiking to a couple of nice lakes and to the top of Silver Peak. The two smaller pictures below show the trail to Mirror Lake and the side of Silver Peak we hiked up. In the picture on the bottom left you can see some of the hikers in our group. Click any picture to see a close up. Silver Peak is just east of Seattle.

Our first stop was a small lake. It was a smaller closed off lake. It was an amazing place to start off the day.	Our next stop was Mirror Lake. We stopped for lunch. This trail was chosen to show us the beauty of WA.	I had to have a pic of me at the lake. What a great view. No lunch picture because I forgot it.
One of the hikers spotted this odd rock on the trail. Pretty cool! Someone added the moss over the "head".	Up comes the group, including my food sherpa, MissJenn. Without her help I would have perished.	Pacific Coast Trail Sign.
One of my "artsy" shots.	Right after that artsy picture, we turned up the hill and started heading toward the peak.	This was a great picture of the hikers coming up the hill with the mountains and trees behind.
After a short quick hop up a rocky area, we got a great view of the trail and mountain.	I got some great shots of the hikers coming up the trail.	And more hikers make the turn.
We began to get better views. Sometime you are hiking so hard that you don't look back like you should.	Ah, but we had quite a bit to go. On the right you can see the challenge ahead of our group. One interesting part of mountains here are the scree fields. No one will forget the scree field. The photo below shows us getting closer and several of our hikers in the scree field. It is a fairly large photo that your browser might resize. Click to make the photo full size and you can see the hikers on the trail.	Way up there, the scree field. The trail in the foreground is cool.

Coming in closer to the field.	Close up on the hikers.	Hikers on the trail behind me. Ants I tell ya'!
At the base of the field was an area of small flowers.	There were several colors mixed into the flowers. I got a good shot.	The view behind them. One of my screensaver shots.
Getting higher, you get past the scree and get into the boulders. Hikers are all over. A large version is here.	Higher up. See the bush on the left in the picture to the left too?	Once again, looking behind me, tremendous views abound. Another of my screensaver shots.
Here is a close up showing just how big the boulders are.	At this point, it was steep.	Ants I tell ya', ANTS!!!
A cool shot of people lounging near the top. It was steep up here still.	From the top, there was a great view of the lake below.	Still, the cache called to us...
and the cache was over here.	A full size reproduction on the right of the photo on the left reveals a cacher near a geocache as they are searching. For some reason I was in a hurry to get over to the cache (imagine that) and did not take pictures of the shear face cliff to the right of this photo. It was quite a dramatic drop off. I quickly snapped the two photos above and ran down with the guys to get over to the cache.
We had originally planned to head down the scree field to the circular lake. When we got there we realized the hike down was more than our group could do. Attempting to head down to the lake was going to be more of a challenge than we knew before we got up there, so we considered decisions and then headed out.	We went across the field to avoid having to go over the top again.	CYBret The man and the mountains.
Assessing the situation.	Moving across the field to the gap.	Taking a break.
The kilted one scouts!	Back up the hill huh, really?	A waterfall near the junction.