Day 144: Tasty...

It's the 13th of August and we are finally getting out on our first backpacking trip of the summer! This is the latest we've started backpacking - in previous years out first trip has usually been about the time of the Canada Day weekend (though in 2009 we did one trip on the Victoria Day weekend in May). Of course I'm not counting winter overnight trips, but we've only done two of those (both to Elfin Lakes).

We'd got together with our usually backpacking partners and discussed a few options, and one of them was an overnight trip to the so-called Tasty Lake near Needle Peak. Five of us piled into our CR-V (seats 5 including backpacks - yay!) and headed east to the Coquihalla region on a gorgeous sunny day. A slow but steady ascent had us camped by lunch time and while Andrew took off to summit the peak, the rest of us ambled about on the flatter terrain known as the Flatiron. It may not sound as impressive as peak-bagging, but the views are still superb and cover 360 degrees. The best view is without doubt that of the lake and Needle Peak and this photo is the best of the dozens of good ones that we got that day :-)

Yak and Needle Peaks above Tasty Lake