Talapus Lake
There sure are a lot of lakes in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness:
And I visited two of them today, Olallie Lake and Talapus Lake.
These lakes are very popular on the weekends and people usually (as I did once before) get to them via the trail head accessed via Exit 45. However, today I went to the Pratt Lake trail head at Exit 47, the one I used a few weeks ago for Granite Mountain.
I passed the Granite Mountain trail junction and kept going for a bit more than a mile. I then hung a left and made it to Olallie Lake. I backtracked and went down the Talapus Lake trail for another mile and then I went back.
Total hike was about 9.3 miles. Very nice. I saw only one person until I passed the Granite Mountain trail junction on the way down – plenty of folks going up to Granite today. Since I started in the dark with a headlamp at 6am, I was finishing as they were starting.
The track:
