With no way to make it to Chapin, Chiquita and Ypsilon, our destination for today's hike changed to Bluebird Lake. Calypso Cascades and Ouzel Falls are still crashing down, providing a cooling spray to all the sweaty hikers making their way past. As if all this snow wasn't enough, a landslide/avalanche had obliterated part of the trail about 10 days ago. I made the wrong choice, and headed to the right of the avalanche. Oh well - we had a great bushwhack up to a beautiful ridge looking up at Chapin. We renamed our lunch spot "Bluebird Log".
We stopped at Ouzel Lake on our way down, just to ensure that we got at least one lake in on the hike.
While my group ditched me and headed down the trail, I continued to take photos of one of the three moose we saw along the trail. Moose are becoming so much more common on the east side of the park in the last few years. I've gone from one sighting a year, to once a week.
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