Buster and Jeanette at the trailhead We began hiking on the old road, which has some great views of the Cascades, until we reached a saddle where I had hoped to find a direct trail down to the lake. After some steep scrambling around, we gave up and went back to the road. This road is evidently the route BLM considers the trail to the lake. In the early 70s I actually drove this road with my Datsun pickup and camper. At that time it was the main route from the Snow Peak area to Quartzville Creek and looking at my 1974 BLM map I see it was called the Yellowstone Access Road.
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