Trip to the north, part 2

We drove to the trail head for the Collie Lake hike and were surprised to see quite the burned down forest. The hike up to the lake was...not my favorite hike we have ever done, but Stan was patient :) and we made it. We climbed over all kinds of fallen trees. As always, the pictures hardly do justice to what we experienced. We had to do a little detective work to figure out where the trail was at times.

 Pretty much we just hung out and fished for all of Tuesday evening, Wednesday, and Thursday morning. We had the lake to ourselves on Wednesday and we hiked around most of the lake. We caught quite a few fish and had such a wonderful time!

This is the one fish we kept that I had caught. He was sure a feisty guy and I was scared he was going to jump right out of my hands.

We kept two fish for lunch on Wednesday. They were super delicious!

We hiked on Thursday morning and said goodbye to this little heaven. It had been such a beautiful, peaceful trip.