Echo Lake

You might think that driving up winding back roads before dawn for 2 hours might bring you some seclusion, but you would be wrong. Our drive to Echo Lake included two very different but equally noisy car clubs (one Porsche, one Audi) and a person playing their tuba. Yes, someone brought their tuba to echo lake to make echos, it was fabulous. Still a beautiful day even if stopped to take pictures of elk meant that we didn’t quite catch the sunrise.

Comparing pictures after our trip, my friend and I both took almost the exact same picture. Neither quite captured the magic of the yellow birch against the pine mountain.

Along the road up. Stopping for a moment of fall color, I thought this person walking captured the scale of the vista.