{"id":2574,"date":"2020-08-09T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2020-08-09T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T19:46:25","slug":"bear-valley-lakes-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Bear Valley Lakes, Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend Corey and I had the opportunity to hike to Bear Valley Lakes. Bear Valley Lakes is located in the Lemhi mountain range in the Salmon National Forest. It was a 3 hour drive from our home to the trailhead. Once at the trailhead it’s a 6 mile hike up to the Bear Valley Lakes. We hiked the whole 6 miles in 3 hours. It is a continual upward climb gaining more than 2000 ft of elevation.  It wasn’t too difficult but my legs were fatigued by the time we made it to the lakes just from the constant upward climb. The trail itself was a little rocky and made it difficult to hike on at times. The scenery was beautiful. There is a creek that runs for the most part all along the trail. We often came upon little waterfalls. Once at the lake there was a little wind that made a hot summer day feel really nice and cool. The lake is a glacial lake so it was pretty cold. I soaked my feet in it and it felt really refreshing. Corey spent his extra time up there fishing (he caught 3 fish) and I spent my time finishing a book. The best part of our trip is that we had the whole lake to ourselves not another soul in sight. The only time we saw someone else was as we were packing up to leave another group of people and livestock arrived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corey and I at the lake<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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At the trailhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our little paradise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Corey getting ready to head out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Selfie before we head up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reading my book off my phone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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North end of the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Corey catching his third fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Resting his legs after the hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fishing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful view from our campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It’s not camping without a campfire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Enjoying the fire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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one of the many waterfalls on our hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another waterfall from our hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Selfie in front of a waterfall on our way back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful majestic peaks around the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend Corey and I had the opportunity to hike to Bear Valley Lakes. Bear Valley Lakes is located in the Lemhi mountain range in the Salmon National Forest. It was a 3 hour drive from our home to the trailhead. Once at the trailhead it’s a 6 mile hike up to the Bear Valley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,33,67],"tags":[23,7,21,8],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corey-2","category-hobbies","category-karin","tag-camping","tag-corey","tag-hiking","tag-karin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}