Distance: 14 km return
Elevation gain: 430 m
September 28, Thursday, was a nice day in the middle of cooler weather and the snow had melted so we enjoyed one last hike for the season.
Headwall Lakes starts at Chester parking lot and follows various poorly labeled snowshoe trails. There was a significant number of people hiking to Chester Lake but we had the whole trail to ourselves.
After we left the wide trails we followed a creek, still gurgling.
This part of the walk was in the woods, shady and cool so we were glad to reach a rock slide with views of the sun, mountains and Chester mountain.
The trail was very level up till now. Ahead were some steep ascents and headwalls, thankfully not too long.
We arrived at the first lake and were disappointed to see how gray and colourless it was.
So we went on to the second lake to reach our goal and take our picture.
As we sat and watched, the wind changed and the reflection on the water became much clearer, it changed continually with the wind.
We decided to go back over the headwall to get out of the wind and were very pleased to see the new blue colour of the first lake also. It was so warm, I took a real half hour nap before continuing on down.
There were a few larches at their peak mixed among the evergreens and adding to the beauty of a lovely day, our last hike of the season.
