6.5 miles of hiking • 750' elevation gain •
This trip was supposed to be a Three Finger Jack loop, but it ended up being an out-and-back to Square Lake.
The big problem was the bumble bees. The trail was covered in a white flower which was at the peak of its pollination so the bees were going nuts. Usually they don't bother me, but I had several swarm me, and since I had shorts on and was walking right through them, it wasn't turning out to be a very good situation. Seeing as how I was stung three times last year (albeit by wasps, I think), I wasn't in the mood to find out how friendly the little buggers would be.
The Mother Lode fire was blazing away down by Mt. Washington.
I picked Whitewater -> Jeffy Park as a plan B, but the wasps were really bad at Whitewater. Maybe I'm chicken, but I wasn't in the mood to find out how friendly they were going to be that day, so I did some more bailing, and went home.
