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Some photos from Saturday on Cirque Peak. Beautiful day to be out.

Cirque Peak

Exactly where is Cirque Lake and Peak? What trailhead?

You would go out of Horseshoe Meadows for Cirque Lake & Peak.

Thanks. I found it on a map. "Cirque Lake" is a common name for a lake so I just was not sure which one.

Yeah it's the whole Cottonwood Lakes area. I have been there so many times I found it hard to believe it had been 5 years since I had been in the area. I had never been by Cirque Lake so I made a small detour to see it.

I've never done much day hiking really so this was a bit of a different experience. It actually was the first time I have done a true solo trip in the sense that I didn't have to have someone drive me there. I may have waited to 30 to get a license but now it's paying off.

Great photos! Thanks for posting. I'm looking forward to Cirque Peak sometime next summer season

Thanks for posting Rogue. I went over NAP at 3:00 pm the same day. I followed the South Fork drainage back down to the trailhead by around 6:30 pm. It sure was a beautiful day!


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Hmmm I was standing on the pass itself at about 3PM. Must have just missed me or hell maybe you did walk by me while I was headed down.

I did see one other guy at the top of the pass. He was taking pictures and wearing brown pants, long sleeve shirt and a medium sized sun hat. Maybe that was you? He was still there when I started down the switchbacks, and we didn't get a chance to talk, mostly I wanted to respect his possible desire for solitude. I saw a small group of maybe two other people heading down OAP earlier and two people fishing the lowest Southfork Lake later on the way down, but other than that I didn't see anyone else that day. Next time[emoji3]


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Was there two of you and you started down right before I reached the pass? If so yep that was me. Brown pants, black shirt, white sun cap.