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Old 06-12-2017, 08:43 PM   #1
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For the latest weekender I headed to the North Slope of the Uinta Mountains for a little lakeside relaxation.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ly...4d-110.6116776

Friends Dale and Pat accompanied me with my dogs. The higher elevations along the Mirror Lake Highway (UT-150) are still off limits as despite warm temps the past few weeks, several feet of snow still cover the ground there and lakes are still mostly iced over. Coming into the North Slope via southwestern Wyoming, however, gave us the chance to follow USFS forest roads to Lyman Lake at 9,200 feet, well before the road became impassable further in.


Crossing back into Utah from Wyoming. We'd see a moose in the background meadow on our way out.

Getting there was mostly on graded gravel road, but from the point where FR-58 split from FR-65, FR-58 was an unimproved road littered with large rocks, erosion holes and ruts for the last 3 or 4 miles to the lake, so the final push was slow going.


For the last 3 or 4 miles, the road looked like this.

It was worth the effort, however. One other small group was camped about an eighth of a mile away, well out of both eyesight and ear-shot. There were a few daytime visitors, but we were the only other overnighters. A strong wind kept us from pitching the awning, but otherwise the weather was gorgeous with highs in the low 60s and an overnight low of 38.4ºF. Sitting around the campfire, a scan of the nearby woods with a headlamp revealed many sets of eyes watching our camp from the plethora of deer in the neighborhood.


Lyman Lake


The girls find a patch of snow along the lake shore.


A wonderful site.


Zoe retrieves a stick from the lake. (photo: Dale)


Our camp is visible across the lake.


Yours truly and Pat beside our roaring camp fire. (photo: Dale)


Maggie looks out across the nearby Little Lyman Lake. There's a USFS campground on the other side but it appeared unoccupied.

Another great weekend, and this time without causing any more damage to the TT.
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No clue why two of the photos appear broken on the forum Android app, but work beautifully on the forum website even though I signed out of my Google account to make sure it wasn't a permissions issue. Sorry!
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I'm on the website on a computer and do not see any photos. ???
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I'm on the website on a computer and do not see any photos. ???
Awww, crap...OK, must be a permissions issue. I'll fix it, stand by. Apparently there's a limit of time within which I can edit a post, so I'll probably have to start again.
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(OK, this should fix the broken images, with the added benefit that you can now click through to a medium and full-size version.)

For the latest weekender I headed to the North Slope of the Uinta Mountains for a little lakeside relaxation.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ly...4d-110.6116776

Friends Dale and Pat accompanied me with my dogs. The higher elevations along the Mirror Lake Highway (UT-150) are still off limits as despite warm temps the past few weeks, several feet of snow still cover the ground there and lakes are still mostly iced over. Coming into the North Slope via southwestern Wyoming, however, gave us the chance to follow USFS forest roads to Lyman Lake at 9,200 feet, well before the road became impassable further in.


Crossing back into Utah from Wyoming. We'd see a moose in the background meadow on our way out. The mountain in the background is 13,166-foot Tokewanna Peak, one of 22 Uinta peaks over 13,000 feet if you define a peak by at least 200 feet of clear prominence. By contrast, the highest peak in the Wasatch is Mt. Nebo at 11,928 feet.

Getting there was mostly on graded gravel road, but from the point where FR-58 split from FR-65, FR-58 was an unimproved road littered with large rocks, erosion holes and ruts for the last 3 or 4 miles to the lake, so the final push was slow going.


For the last 3 or 4 miles, the road looked like this.

It was worth the effort, however. One other small group was camped about an eighth of a mile away, well out of both eyesight and ear-shot. There were a few daytime visitors, but we were the only other overnighters. A strong wind kept us from pitching the awning, but otherwise the weather was gorgeous with highs in the low 60s and an overnight low of 38.4ºF. Sitting around the campfire, a scan of the nearby woods with a headlamp revealed many sets of eyes watching our camp from the plethora of deer in the neighborhood.


Lyman Lake


The girls find a patch of snow along the lake shore.


A wonderful site.


Zoe retrieves a stick from the lake. (photo: Dale)


Our camp is visible across the lake.


Yours truly and Pat beside our roaring camp fire. (photo: Dale)


Maggie looks out across the nearby Little Lyman Lake. There's a USFS campground on the other side but it appeared unoccupied.

Another great weekend, and this time without causing any more damage to the TT.
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I'm on the website on a computer and do not see any photos. ???
Evereddie, can you confirm that they're visible now in the post immediately preceding this one? Thanks in advance!
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Evereddie, can you confirm that they're visible now in the post immediately preceding this one? Thanks in advance!
Got it! And wow is that beautiful.
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Looks like Utah is in our future. Daughter married an Air Force guy and been stationed in Okinawa Japan for last 7 years. Found out tonight that next May they are being transferred to a base near Salt Lake City. Beautiful country.
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Got it! And wow is that beautiful.
Appreciate it, and apologies to all for the false start. I now know what I did and hopefully won't repeat the mistake.

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Looks like Utah is in our future. Daughter married an Air Force guy and been stationed in Okinawa Japan for last 7 years. Found out tonight that next May they are being transferred to a base near Salt Lake City. Beautiful country.
Yep, that would be Hill AFB in Layton, north of SLC near Ogden. Congrats!
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Gorgeous pics of Lyman Lake. I try to go to the Uintas as much as possible. This year's first trip will be Stillwater campground in July. Looking forward to it. Appears that you are my neighbor, give or take, ~20 miles. Now you've made me even more anxious to get up there.

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Beautiful pics - thanks for sharing! Was this in a campground? Or dispersed?
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Gorgeous pics of Lyman Lake. I try to go to the Uintas as much as possible. This year's first trip will be Stillwater campground in July. Looking forward to it. Appears that you are my neighbor, give or take, ~20 miles. Now you've made me even more anxious to get up there.

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Thanks, neighbor! Enjoy Stillwater but why wait until July?
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Beautiful pics - thanks for sharing! Was this in a campground? Or dispersed?
Dispersed. There's a primitive USFS campground at Little Lyman Lake nearby to the Southwest that didn't appear to have any occupants, and an LDS church camp at the Northeast end of Lyman Lake that likewise appeared unoccupied. I'm not LDS so I don't get to use that anyway. [emoji6]
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Thanks, neighbor! Enjoy Stillwater but why wait until July?[emoji6]
Still a working man, so need to be particular about days off.

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Still a working man, so need to be particular about days off.

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Same here, we've just been weekending it until our first week long trip in mid-July.
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