Seven Devils, Day 3
From Lily Pad Lake horse camp, travel down to Bernard Lakes, then up and over Dry Diggins Ridge, then on down to the Echo Lake drainage.
![]() The lowest end of the Bernard chain. |
![]() The next Bernard Lake as you are traveling NW |
![]() More Gentian flowers |
![]() The main Bernard Lake |
![]() Different perspective. |
![]() Yeah, I know. I kinda got carried away with the Lily Pad pictures! |
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![]() The uppermost Bernard lake. Has pretty much lost the war with the Lily Pads! |
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![]() Dry Diggins lookout in the distance... through the burned-out stubs. From the lookout you can see the Snake River and much of Hells Canyon. |
![]() Hiking partner and I had never seen this one before. Looked pretty. Smelled putrid! |
![]() Trail from Bernard goes up through a few trees, then to the treeless ridgeline |
![]() The top of the ridge looking ENE. |
![]() Dry Diggins Lookout.. Hells Canyon beyond. |
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![]() After crossing the ridge and beginning down, things got fairly lush for a while. |
![]() Echo Lake... finally. Although it wasn't that far back up from the trail to the lake, it seemed like forever... |
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![]() As the sun was moving down towards sunset, the smoke became so thick that the sun completely disappeared. Amazing! |
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