{"id":285,"date":"2012-07-16T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/2012\/07\/16\/hike-to-lake-of-the-crags\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:03:00","slug":"hike-to-lake-of-the-crags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/2012\/07\/16\/hike-to-lake-of-the-crags\/","title":{"rendered":"Hike to Lake of the Crags"},"content":{"rendered":"
Josh, Steven and I had another hiking adventure last Friday. We decided to take on Lake of the Crags. It’s an off-the-official-trail hike that branches off of the North Jenny Lake trail. We decided to head out a bit late, which almost caused Josh’s downfall for getting to work on time that night.<\/div>\n

We got to the trailhead at around 12:15pm, and started hiking the all-too-familiar trail from String Lake Trailhead. We got to the branch in the trail and started heading up the rugged and steep trail to the lake. The sun was at full blast beating down on us. Not the time of day we prefer hiking in, but we were just getting a warmup hike in before our coming adventure of hiking Middle Teton and South Teton peaks tomorrow.<\/p>\n

It was a pretty difficult hike for just 3-3.5 miles. The trail goes straight up 2500 feet in about 2.5-3 miles. We were struggling a bit to keep up our pace. We finally got to the lake at about 2:15pm.<\/p>\n

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Josh and Steven filling up our waters with the filter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Lake of the Crags<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Pretty nice colors!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Looking up the cliffs beside the lake.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Snow-fed Lake of the Crags<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Looking up at the surrounding peaks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Here’s a video I took at the top:<\/p>\n