Anyway I went out to kennedy lake a few weeks ago (Before I knew about this forums) but I thought it would be nice to share a few pictures and thoughts about the trip and area that I visted so as to pay back a little bit to the community. *Well thats enough of that, lets get to the trip.
I went out with a few friends on a friday. Got up there to the trail head by 10am with day packs filled with food and water to spend the whole day up there.
The Trail was a total of 16miles round trip and consisted of a good bit of elevation change. Roughly 1,800ft each way and the max grade was 24%
The waterfalls on the way up were running very nice at the time.
After the Second bridge and not far before the 3rd and final bridge you get a nice little view
Heading on up farther on the trail and we started getting some clouds rolling in. At this point we are about 3miles out from the lake. The dog in the picture is my trail buddy Alex and he comes with me everywhere I go.
Starting to get a glimspe of the mountains. Just shy of 2 miles away and the clouds are definitely gathering.
Made it out to the meadow and at this point its Snowing/hailing on us let alone the thunder and lightning that started. Time to make a break for the tree line to eat lunch.
After lunch it was time to do the last 1 mile through the wet meadow. Alex didnt mind one bit!
Made it to the lake! To bad its still cloudy and cold though but its time to check out the lake anyway.
The lake was Freezing cold! Alex didnt care though!
After a few mins of hanging out at the lake the clouds started to blow out of the area and it turned into a very nice day. And we even had the whole lake to ourselves.
After a few hours chilling at the lake, taking a nap, and exploring it was time to hit the trail and head back home.
All in all the trip out the kennedy lake was very nice. The views on the way up are beautiful, the river you follow part of the way is very nice, the meadow was awesome as well. As far as dislikes go I only had a few. 1. The trail up from Kennedy meadows camp site is a horse trail so the horse crap was a little annoying, 2. at 8 miles each way it can be a little far for a day hike for some people, but thats not necessarily a bad thing in my mind. I do hope to go back sometime this year for an overnighter that way I will have some time to summit some of the nearby mountains and explore a little bit more. Hopefully this was a decent trip report and everyone enjoyed looking at the pictures even though they are not of Super HD quality. I plan to write up another Trip Report in a few days (When I get the chance to go through my pictures
) for the Overnight I just did last weekend at Sword lake so please let me know if there is anything you guys would like me to change, add, remove, or whatever.*All pictures were taken with a samsung Galaxy S4 and have not been edited at all so don't expect amazing DSLR quality like a lot of you guys are accustom to
