Square: Mountain Lakes
Fremont-Winema National Forest DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 Blue line for day 1. Click for interactive map With the idea that it might be nice to see the larches as they turn, I launched myself on a trip into Oregon. It being still early for that, I picked out various places to explore while meandering north towards the scattered "larches here" points I dropped on a map last year before heading off to Maryland instead. I initially thought to start in the South Warner Mountains, but decided that the end of summer in a dry year might not be the best time to visit a rather dry place, besides, there wasn't much driving savings for adding it on to a trip to Oregon. That wouldn't even be in Oregon. Next on my mind was a loop on my planning map labeled "see the square wilderness". The Mountain Lakes Wilderness seems like the wilderness one might invent as an illustrative example. It occupies the T37S R6E township of the Willamette Baseline and Meridian, maki...