16.44 miles of hiking • 4000' elevation gain •
This one has been on my list for a while. After seeing Rhonda's trip report (thank you), we decided to check this one off the list. This was a really great, quiet hike, with no one on the Wonderland trail past the Rampart Ridge junction. The avalanche lilies were all over the place in the last mile and up in Indian Henry's Hunting ground. We went past the ranger cabin up the spur trail to Mirror Lake. A beautiful place! The lupine and paintbrush were coming out, but it seems there is much more to bloom yet. Mosquitoes were ferocious. If we stopped for a minute for a photo, we were completely swarmed!!! We only saw four other groups of people around the hunting ground area. No snow anywhere. We finished by completing the Rampart Ridge loop back down to Longmire.
