Sue and I needed an easy hike to recover from Lamotte, so we chose to visit Cuberant lakes from the Pass Lake trailhead. It's a fairly short hike and doesn't have much elevation gain, but as you can see below it was a bluebird day and the flowers are still out in the high country.
In some places the trail is lovely and invites one to stroll and contemplate the beauty all around. In other places, as you'll see later, you'd better be watching your feet or the trail might just give you a black eye!
This is a spot with great memories for me. Years ago when we hiked this with our family, Zack kept running and jumping across this little stream, not at this nice bridge...
... but right about here. He made it every time!
Soon the trail climbs steeply over a small ridge and at the top you can see where the lake isn't. That's not it in the green meadow at the bottom. The lakes are down there and then up again to the right.
The first lake is this beauty with a carpet of lilly pads at its far end, with good looking trout prowling about under cover.
And this was our destination, Cuberant Lakes Number 4. I took my fly rod along and spent about an hour fishing. The trout weren't liking what I was showing them, but I had a great time practicing my casting. Sue and Grizz went off adventuring to find the other lakes in the area.
So here's the other kind of trail that might give you a black eye if you're not watching your feet. Notice Sue...no knee brace....and....NO HIKING POLES! This was a steep, rocky descent and she had enough confidence in her knee to do it unaided. That was a big step for her and made her really happy. She's even stopped carrying her knee brace in her pack. Less than a year out from surgery. Surgeons and Physical Therapists ROCK!!!
They don't call these the Rocky Mountains for nothing!
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