Brewer Lake 2021

 Since last year, I've become co-captain for maintaining this trail. That's the official title. The unofficial, is dude who goes along with the guy who knows what he's doing and does what he's told. 

Stats:  Length - 16.7 km., Elevation gain - 794 metres, Time - 6 hours 

Trail We started out early and were first up the road to the trailhead which gave us the privilege to chase a lone black bear off the road. We were also first in the parking lot excluding whoever had camped at the lake overnight. (That would have been chilly.) The larches were in their full, fall glory unlike last year when we'd camped at the lake and they were only just beginning to turn to the luminescent gold we were enjoying on this October day. 

Instead of stopping at the lake, eating lunch. and turning around, we climbed up to the ridge overlooking the lake where we could see the valley on the other side with a great view down the valley we'd walked. I wanted to climb to the top and Nicola did not. Nicola became panicky and then angry when I left her view and wasn't back in the expected time. Nevertheless, the view was worth the effort. 

We stopped at the upper tarn and spent a pleasant time soaking up the sun and eating our lunch. Nicola had smartly brought food for the dogs when we walked up to the Lake of the Hanging Glacier and we did the same today. They were ravenous enough to ignore the picas that could occasionally scooting from rock to rock. 

People: Being a Monday, most of the people we met were of an age to be comfortably retired. One couple passed us just as we were approaching Brewer Lake, Their destination was the peak on the far side of the lake, considerably higher than the one I'd ascended. We passed a group of four or five of similar age chatting beside Brewer Lake in no hurry to get anywhere. The road up the trailhead is a hazard to any but a high clearance road. The last two kilometres past the last bridge over Brewer Creek is particularly bad due to numerous ruts across the road where water runs in the spring. Two vehicles had parked on the town side of the bridge, a Dodge Caravan and a Toyota Tacoma. Obviously, the Tacoma could have navigated the runts easily, but the Dodge Caravan, never. We connected these vehicles with the group by the lake. (You see how exciting our lives can be.) 


Brewer Lake

Larches above Brewer Lake 

Tarn above Brewer Lake 

View from Ridge

Another view from ridge

Having lunch






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