Just a Day at the Lake

Labor Day 2012 was Monday September 3rd, and since it was a day off from work Laina and I decided that we should do a quick little hike not too strenuous so we headed on out to Battle Ground Lake.   Our trail guide told us this would be a 7 mile hike so we thought this would be perfect.

When we got to the lake we were checked by the park attendent, he asked where we were headed and we said to the 7 mile trail, he told us that there was no 7 mile trail and that all trails together probably didn't amount to that....quite disappointed we decided to stay anyway and check it out. 

Here are a few pictures from the lake because like any hike I like to document where we have been and what we saw.

  Some pretty purple flowers next to the trail

  A view of the swimming area

  The trail is surrounded by lots of tall fir trees

 This looks like a pretty relaxing little lake to fish in - I am not sure if they caught anything but it looks relaxing

  I thought this was so cool how clear the water was that you could see the logs on the bottom./

  This tree obviously gets lot of fishermens tackle....lol.  I made me think of just "hanging" out at the lake...lol.

 

 

Overall I thought this was a good lake for a day of picnicing or camping but not so great for hiking.  I am glad we went to check it out though.