Ross Lake Run

24 miles out and back on the East Bank trail along Ross Lake in the North Cascades National Park.

Unbelievable weather, a gorgeous trail, and a beautiful lake. The water was this beautiful alpine-lake blue, fed by cascading creeks off of distant glaciers.

Still figuring out this trail running thing, especially nutrition: after a few hours I wasn’t haven’t a great time getting down the food we brought (Clif bars, chews, gus), and started bonking pretty bad.

By the end of it, we were stoked, with fried legs. Not a bad place to be after trail running! We made our way back to a relaxing campground at Colonial Creek to round out a relaxing weekend in the mountains.

Awesome views from the trail.

Ross Lake. Water level a little low!

You’d think this would be somewhere in the Caribbean, not in NCNP.

Stoked to be trail running!

Devil’s Creek feeding into Ross Lake.

Some epic trails running along the East Bank of the lake.