Junction Lake Scenic Panoramas - Wilderness Hiking 📷

In my last post here, I had the photos of the many creek washes and waterfalls along the trail to the quite distant Junction Lake. Its a 28km (17mi) round trip hike to this lake and with the flood taking out 60% of the trail, it certainly wasn't easy. However, as @themagus said in comment recently to me, sometimes meandering off trail is the best way to go hiking. I certainly agree and enjoyed some beautiful scenery as a result. I hope you agree!

So, here was the destination as I finally reached the lakes after a very long hike that seemed to go on endlessly. Luckily the scenery just kept getting better the further along.

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Couldn't have asked for better timing, as I arrived at the final lake, the sky opened up and some beautiful blues showed above the route I had hiking along to get here. My route and non-existent trail was right from the center of the photo all along the valley.

While my last post was all the waterfalls on this same hike, I just saw that I missed a couple of waterfalls photos, so here they are. This first one I really liked, it was high in the alpine meadows just below the lake's headwall.