Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Lake Aloha - El Dorado County, California


Visited on 7/2/2017 – Lake Aloha was a much longer hike back in to Desolation Wilderness from where I left Jeff and the dogs near Tamarack Lake for the afternoon.  During my solo hike, getting a little lost, I did come across Lake Aloha.  You would think that in July it would at least be partially melted, but it resembled more of a snowy meadow than a Lake.  This glacial lake is 627 acres located 10 miles southwest of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, at elevation 8,144 feet above sea level.  It lies just northwest of Echo Lakes.  I had to trek through lots of snow to get to the Lake and it was covered in ice and snow from the heavy snow pack from 2016-17 season.  It was a picture perfect beautiful summer day, not a cloud in the sky and a high of 81 degrees. 
 
 
This is not a picture that I took of the Lake, but this is what it looks like looking from the north end of the lake looking south when the snow and ice pack melts. 

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