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| no partners | | Our plan was to drive straight through and car camp at Clear Lake Thursday night. But a bad alternator kept us in Telluride overnight. So instead, we car camped next to a creek right down the hill from the auto shop while they ordered the part from 40 miles away. Friday morning they swapped out the alternator and off we went up to Ouray then back down on the Million Dollar highway to Silverton. We took the last “legitimate” parking spot at the upper TH mid-afternoon and started our hike in. Being the Labor Day weekend Friday, there were already quite some people on the trail, but it would prove to be nothing compared to the next couple of days.
The hike in was beautiful and mostly shaded. I had thought about setting up camp at Ice Lake so that we could see the sunrise at the lake. But forecast of afternoon and evening thunderstorms everyday made us decide to camp down at the lower ice lake basin. It would turn out that Friday night didn’t rain and quite some people were camping right up there at Ice Lake and Island Lake. Saturday and Sunday would see a huge influx of hikers and backpackers who camped at both lakes and a big thunderstorm Saturday evening. The lower basin is beautiful and we had the camp site to ourselves for the next couple of nights, which was just below the waterfall next to the ascending trail to the upper basin. The night was very nice with the sound of the waterfall right next to us. |
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