Hilton lakes 6/28/19
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Post by overheadx2 » Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:12 am
Made the trip to the Hilton lakes this weekend. Seemed to have picked the right weekend as the snow had melted off enough to get up to 10300’ relatively easily while mosquitoes seemed to be just starting up. On the hike in, we were overtaken by some horse packers and found that they were headed to the lower lakes which made our decision to head up to third lake much easier. The mosquitoes at the lower lakes were probably a 1-2 while the the mosquitoes at third and fourth lakes were a 0-1 due to a nice breeze most of the time.
2nd Hilton lake
The trail was snow free to the lakes turn off and spotty but relatively easy to the third lake. There was still quite a bit of snow on the steep north and east facing slopes at both the 3rd and 4th lakes with the camping flats areas pretty much snow free.
3rd lake from the inlet, from the ridge by 5th lake and looking from our campsite down toward Davis lake at dusk.
Getting to fourth lake was tough simply because of a slightly precarious creek crossing and extremely boggy terrain at the base of the creek coming out of 5the lake.
Getting to 5th lake was pretty easy by staying with on the snow free ridge from 3rd to 5th lake. 5th lake was completely snow covered with som very cool looking ice burgs in the lake. From 5 th lake on it was completely snow covered but easily doable with micro spikes or crampons early in the day.
5th lake and ice burgs
Fishing was pretty good overall at all of the lakes
TR - Hilton lakes 6/28/19
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Re: TR - Hilton lakes 6/28/19
Thanks for the TR and pic's, liked the iceberg pic. 
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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Re: TR - Hilton lakes 6/28/19
Nice pictures and report! Thanks!
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Re: TR - Hilton lakes 6/28/19
Great report, thank you for posting!!
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Re: TR - Hilton lakes 6/28/19
Thanks for the report and photos!
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Re: TR - Hilton lakes 6/28/19
Really appreciate the report and pictures.
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