Despite the high water and the remaining snow, our intrepid group of Gregory, Evan, Cory, Jenaina, George and Maggie headed up for an attempt on Thunder Lake. The park service says that the "average melt out" date for the Thunder Lake campsites is 6/30. For some reason I think this year will affect that average.
About a mile before the lake, the snow went from patchy to 6 ft deep. We were able to cross the outlet stream from Lion, but no more tracks beyond there, and the going got much tougher. We called it a day with a long 1/4 mile still to go, enabling us to get off the snow before the thunderstorm drenched us.
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