Seven Lakes Ridge - Bul Lake 8/15/10 26 miles

We woke up to an amazing sunrise this morning on the ridge. The mountain tops were pastel shades of orange, pink and red. Good way to start the day. Weknew that we had a big day ahead of us so we got going. The morning was nice ande cool, which helped the walking. We again were mostly on ridges today and had some gorgeous views of Mt. Shasta. By lunchtime, we had walked 13 miles. We ate at Deadfall Lake, which was really nice, with a firepit adn lots of logs around to sit on. Some chipmunk spectators joined us, awaited any drops of crumbs. Some day hikers came by and chatted for a while adn excitingly asked many questions about our hike. They asked how long we'd been out and when we responded, "since June 15th," I myself was even surprised. It definitely doesn't seem that we've been out here two months today. We took a couple of nice breakes for the remaineder of the day and then headed down to the lake. There sat Trouble and Dude. They had intended on hiking two more miles and tstayed near some trees on the lake when it began to hail. We totally missed that! The sky had looked dark all day, and we had gotten sprinkled on, but no hail! It was good to catch up with them and hang out for a while. They are for sure some good folks. Nice, flat campsite tonight, right by the lake. -KB