Oregon's Hidden Lakes

i'm the rockhopper and today i'm at anthony lakes in the mountains of oregon but there are some lakes just beyond that you may not even know about and i'm going to show you them today [Music] if you're not an experienced tiger that's okay the hikes i'm going to show you are reasonably easy we'll start out here with a nice simple hike of a quarter mile of lily pad lake and then onward from there we'll head up to black lake that was sure a fast walk to lily pad lake which is appropriately named because it does have a lot of lily pads on it i don't even think that was a quarter mile just took me a minute to get here there's a dragonfly laying some eggs on that lily pad right there a lot of these pretty blue dragonflies in this area that's sight mountain up there and you can see why little notch in the mountain like a gun sight not hard to see that fall is getting very close judging by the color in the grass that is changing the huckleberries are all gone people bears and birds have eaten them all up and their colors are changing too we've left lily pad lake behind and we're on the way to black lake now and the trail does have an incline now but it's not terrible the trail is leveled out again but i think we're probably gonna have to do some climbing to get to black lake here's our turn off for black lake and we are going uphill again we're alternating between open areas and forest as we hike looks like we're coming up to black lake this is indeed black lake [Music] let's have a walk around the lake come on here's a look at the lake from the other side now that we've explored lily pad and black lake let's go to a couple other lakes we'll have to go back out the same way we came in to get to here and then we'll take a different trail up to some other lakes summer is fading away and quite quickly especially at this elevation which is at about 7 500 feet looks like something started to make a nesting cavity in this dead tree did you know that standing dead trees called snags can harbor as much if not more life than a living tree yes dead trees can be home to woodpeckers squirrels all sorts of things and birds such as ospreys and bald eagles tend to nest at the very tops the openness of the dead branches create great lookouts one last look at black lake back out we go those birds are stellar stellar's jays it's not far too hot for lakes and the trail is relatively easy the hoffer lakes trail parallels a stream [Applause] one last spot of summer color i'm actually surprised to find it here's a little foot bridge across the stream looks like it's in need of some repair another little foot bridge not far from the first one there's some tiny fish in this stream and a few fish that are bigger than these little fingerlings here looks like we're coming up to a sign probably for hoffer lake that's it all right now there's a fish having a look at me while i'm having a look at him this fish is not as big as he appears pretty little butterfly there i think that might be a comma butterfly let's go have a look at the next hoffer lake come on we'll go across this little log bridge here and another and another right after that well that didn't take long to get to the next lake this is the second of the hopper lakes i hear chickadees in the trees just past the second hoffer lake a nice little cascade of water down the granite face i hope you enjoyed exploring the lesser-known lakes beyond anthony lakes with me and the trails that take you there don't forget to subscribe every time i get new subscribers it encourages me to keep coming out to places of beauty like this and sharing them with you and don't forget to give me a thumbs up like on my videos thanks so much for watching until next time this is a rockhopper i'll see ya