Friday, July 30, 2021

Mirror and Marie Lakes - Will this be our favorite kayak of the year?

We are loving our time at Sugarloaf Campground in the Snowy Mountain Range of the Medicine Bow National Forestn Wyoming! After what might be our favorite hike yesterday, today we are going kayaking. We thought about kayaking at Libby or Lewis Lakes just below our campground, but we drove a couple miles to check out Mirror Lake. The water was so smooth that the mountains were mirrored in Mirror Lake this morning.

We could park right beside the lake and we were on the water in about 10 minutes. We really like our Sea Eagle inflatable kayak!

We took a lap around the lake,

and then we discovered that there was a little island in the middle. It's hard to tell, but Denisa is standing on that little island.

That allows us to take pictures of the Mark in the kayak with the tall mountain back drop. Nice!

Denisa's glad to say that Mark has always circled back to pick her up. 

Mirror Lake was a great little mountain lake for kayaking, but we had also noticed that Marie Lake certainly looked nice.

It's less than a mile away, so we strapped our inflated Sea Eagle onto the pickup, and got to kayak on a second lake today.

It would be hard for us to pick which lake we enjoyed the most.

When we first got on the water, we noticed a group gathering on the side closest to the road.

We have managed to crash a wedding, right here on the shore of Marie Lake!

These mountains and the blue skies will make a beautiful background for those wedding pictures. We tried real hard not to photo bomb the ceremony photos. As we kayaked right beneath those grand mountains, we realized it was impossible to capture their immense size without anything in front of them for scale.

So once again, Mark dropped Denisa off on a rock beside the water, and he rowed the kayak in front of the mountain. From her perch on the rock, Denisa zoomed in on Mark and our 12-foot kayak in front of that great big snow bank.

That's a big boulder at the bottom of the snow bank, right?

Then she zoomed out and took a picture of the entire mountain face. Mark and the kayak are in the picture, but they are too tiny to even see, and that huge snow bank that was in the picture doesn't look so big compared to the big mountain.

Denisa's glad to report that once again, Mark rowed back to pick her up.

It's been another great day in the Snowy Mountain Range here in southern Wyoming. With a chance to be on two lovely alpine lakes within a mile of our campground on the same day, we're thinking that this might just be our favorite kayak trip of the year!


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