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TyeDyeTwins · 08-22-2014, 05:32 AM

Life has sure had it's up's and down's this past week. My mom turned 50, my grampa on my dads side recently passed at 99! , old friends from the past have been coming out of the wood work just about everywhere in my life, and in a couple hours, we start school again!

With life coming at us fast,, it was time to slow things down and get in one celebratory adventure. So last Friday EvilTyeDyeTwin (the photographer), KTrout (Cory) and I headed up to Henery's Fork in the Uintas for 3 days. The plan was to travel 7+ miles a day, visiting Dollar Lake and Cliff Lake in Henry's fork.

The troops making progress in the 1st few minutes of a long 7 mile day in Henery's Fork.
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Several miles later we hit the infamous elk horn crossing.
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Upper henry's was finally in view.
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Even a few miles more and it still looked the same. The view of Kings Peak kept spirits high.
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Thanks to local fire restrictions we had to camp .25 miles away from Dollar Lake, making a water refill a half mile journey!
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Dollar Lake, not a single fish or bite was found here. Some anglers on the trail claimed they caught lake trout there. I suspected B.S. and sure enough their pics were of really fat brook trout. Cool but not as cool as lake trout.
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DAY 2

The next morning we had plans to leave camp in place and hike an additional 7 miles round trip to Cliff Lake. The views just outside of camp were outstanding!
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KTrout and Troy hiking Henery's Fork enroute to Cliff Lake. We had to hike beyond the ridge in the "right foreground".
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We passed an old cabin on the way over to Cliff Lake. Not a bad place to set up shop!
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Henery's Lake was one of many lakes we passed up fishing on the way to Cliff Lake.
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Lake Blanchard was another lake that we passed up enroute to Cliff Lake.
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The trail was a mix of brush.....
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.........and high alpine tundra.
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Finally Cliff lake was found.
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The Tiger Trout that called this place home were plentiful and colorful!
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Myself making a few final casts before the long walk ahead.
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Myself getting the hike down started.
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Cory and I felt like ants among-st giants
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The views were expansive
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And some parts were down right bush wacky!
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Every bushwack has its rewards!
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Finally back on trail.
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Still many more miles to go though.
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Cory and I approaching the Red Wall on the hike back to camp.
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A mile later it still looked the same.
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The only thing caught at Dollar Lake was a sunset shot.
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DAY 3

EvilTyeDye and I slept in till the sun was warm, Ktrout tried Dollar Lake for the morning shift. Same result, no fish
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Car bound on the old dusty trail.
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Making headway on the long walk to the car.
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The infamous elk horn crossing.
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One last view of the place we had called home for 3 days.
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