In Blue: Tangle Blue Lake
Shasta-Trinity National Forest DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 Red line for day 1. Click for interactive map For this weekend, Daniil's plan was to head out to Tangle Blue Lake to camp two nights and then walk off to wherever, there's lots of trails around, for the middle day. Since Tangle Blue Lake got cut out of my lake visiting plans on the 5th day of a mighty loop from far west , this was my opportunity to see it after all. But I wasn't so sure about there being so many trail options. Also coming along were his wife, their tiny dog, and a new backpacker. We got started a smidge later than planned getting together gear for the new backpacker, but that's okay because people must be exposed to backpacking! We had almost 4 miles to get to the lake from the trailhead, and expected it to be dark before we got there. Already in shadow at the trailhead. The trailhead is a bulge in the road just before a section of private land, part of the checkerboard lands giv...