![]() ![]() While that's likely not the actual reason, I actually enjoy encountering significant looking landmarks with no official name from time to time. Of course there are even larger lakes just outside of the Uintas Wilderness boundary, such as Moon Lake, but those larger lakes have to credit their larger sizes to man-made dams which has converted them into actual reservoirs.Īs for these large nameless lakes in the Wind River Mountains, maybe they just ran out of names on account of how numerous the total number of lake there are to be found in the range and so some of the more remote ones were left without. As was discovered the prior day, lakes like Middle Fork Lake would dwarf the larger of the lakes to be found in the High Uintas Wilderness, chief among them being Grandaddy Lake, Red Castle Lake, and Lake Atwood. They'd easily be among the middle-sized to larger of the lakes to be found in the Uintas. By Uinta standards, many of these nameless lakes were quite big for being high mountain lakes. ![]() Again, there were many of these nameless lakes along the route. I walked very short days, but then had the time to soak it all in. Just prior to arriving at Europe Canyon we had to descend down to another nameless lake. The route from Leigh Lake up and over Paintbrush Divide to Lake Solitude. From the creek flowing out of Halls Lake, we had to pick our way up a rise and then across some rocky tundra where it leveled out. ![]()
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