More pictures from Spooner hike - courtesy of Lucy Roman

 Lucy asked me to add a few of her pictures from Wednesday's hike to the blog:

The dogs exploring the warming hut.

The Spooner Cabin - available to rent May 1 - October 15

Hike to the Aspens at Spooner today

Hey all! We had planned on hiking the last segment of the Mt. Rose to Brockway East TRT hike today. Well, Jane went out to scout out the conditions yesterday. And, this is what she found:

Snow and Mud and what will soon be Ice! A 10+ mile hike with close to 2000 feet of climbing didn't look so good in these conditions.

So, we decided to head for the Aspens on the way from Spooner Lake to Lake Marlette to see if they had their fall clothing out yet. The main entrance to Spooner Lake is closed, so we hiked in through a parking lot on Hwy 50.  We walked down to Spooner, around Spooner and then onto the Marlette Lake trail.

The Aspens are looking pretty good, but my guess is that they'll even look better in a week or two (unless, as some Tessie's Trekkers in the know, predict happens and the leaves just fall off with the up and coming cold conditions). 

Anyway, it was a lovely hike and we all had fun and got some exercise. We had 7 women and 5 dogs on the hike. My own dogs came home and slept all afternoon. They didn't even get out of bed to greet me when I came home from doing errands!

Spooner Lake

Spooner Lake

Spooner Lake

The Aspens!

More of the Aspens!

Tessies Trekkers!

More Aspens

The little warming hut just past the Aspen forest.

Anyway, a lot of fun was had by all. It was about 5 miles of hiking and about 330 feet of climbing. All good!

Pictures from Yesterday's Hike: Kingsbury North to Spooner South

Here we are! A group of 9 humans and 2 dogs setting out to hike the TRT from Kingsbury North to Spooner South at about 9:00AM yesterday morning! 

Lots of us were engaged with lots of technology to track our progress. My Apple watch said we hiked 12.8 miles and climbed 1634 feet. My Fitbit says we hiked 13.85 miles and climbed 1780 feet. No matter what, our legs got a workout.

I'd say it was one of our favorite hikes on the TRT.  There were views of the Lake from almost the entire hike. The weather was cool. And, the rain held off until we could see our cars in the parking lot!

Oh, and thanks to Sherry, who has been tracking our progress of breaking the TRT down into 14 day hikes. I see our group has completed 7 of the 14 hikes at this point. I don't think any of us have completed all of them, but we'll do some makeup hikes when we can.  On October 20th, we'll have completed 8 of the 14! It's not all of the TRT in one summer, but we did have a little bit of smoke and fires to contend with. We can finish up in 2022!

This is our driver Mike. He drove to the Spooner parking lot with us. We parked our cars in the lot and hopped into the IV van he was driving. Then, he drove us to Kingsbury North, the start of our hike. He was super nice ...took our picture and even offered to help if we got stuck anywhere on our adventure.

See Emerald Bay in the picture below?

Are those the IV white sand beaches we see in the picture below?

The finish line! A gorgeous little forest of Aspens beginning to turn into their fall colors and a little rain (sorry, you can't see the rain in the picture). We also saw an amazing rainbow, from the car, on the way home, but I don't think anyone got a picture of it.