A High Perch

We headed back to Black Oak Campground for the last weekend that the campground was open for the season. After setting up camp and having lunch, we took a hike along our favorite route by the campground to this overlook. Someone had placed a rusty chair on top of the rock for viewing.

Since all of the sites overlooking the valley were taken, we camped on the other side of the campground totally away from other campers. All the sites by us were empty.

The campground was very quiet since the campers were respectful adults.

Sunday we headed over to Pinecrest Lake to hike up to Cleo's Bath.

We hiked the beautiful trail up to where one has to start bouldering up the trail, the last portion to Cleo's Bath. We realized that this climb was too steep to do with our dog.

So instead, we headed back to hike around the lake. 

We hiked counterclockwise until we came to the dam. The trail continues over the dam. At first, we thought we couldn't cross over or use the trail since we didn't see anyone walking over the dam. And from our position on the trail above the dam, it looked like there wasn't a trail. Luckily that wasn't so since we didn't feel like hiking back the way we came.

The view looking down the dam from the trail on the dam. There were some people down there hiking.

As we continued our hike around the lake, we got a view of the canyon up to Cleo's Bath. Even though we didn't make it up to Cleo's Bath, our hike was wonderful and fun around this beautiful lake.