All right so here we are. Welcome to Shirt Lake around the town of Cascade. Today i
brought my mom and my fiance on their first backpacking trip together, so that's fun.
Sarah and i have actually done this before. This is in this basin, there's actually three lakes down
here. There's Lost, Hidden, and Shirt. Lost and Hidden are on the other side of the ridge and actually
this one, Shirt, is the most hidden. It's kind of, you gotta take this goat path to find
it. We stayed at Lost last time and we were like, you know what? That Shirt Lake would have
been the coolest place to stay. So we decided to come out this time and actually stay here and
yeah my mom was in town so. It's a real real easy hike. I mean the toughest part is this real steep
down into this lake. It's gonna be real tough in the morning but yeah we got here early so now we
have the whole day to just relax. And i like those kind of trips, okay. You don't always have to be
slinging a pack way far, way far into the mountains to get away from things. Sometimes it's nice to
just take a slightly heavier pack with some extra food and stuff and just have a nice
overnight trip. So that's what this trip is. By the way i got this new little jetboil which
is supposed to be smaller and more compact, but i remember having this problem before when
i ordered one of these mini ones. They make the coffee filter the same standard size and then it
like hits you in the nose when you're trying to drink coffee. I don't, come on it's a johnson
and johnson company you think they could figure that out and manufacture more coffee filters
or better coffee presses. Sarah and i brought our fishing poles. I haven't seen a damn fish in here
but the water's warm so makes it a good swimming hole. I guess i'll take that but it would have
been nice if there's some fish in here. We'll see if they come out later, but i doubt it.
I have a bug here that's a mosquito bug okay.
So far we've had the lake all to ourselves. I mean you hear a lot nowadays how the outdoors
are crowded. Which i mean shouldn't it, it's not a bad thing. People should be outside. Isn't it,
it's good that we're getting outside. And yeah there's more people out here but
there's a lot of out here you know? We're less than two hours from Boise in the middle of
summer vacation season with a two mile hike and we have this pristine lake all to ourselves. So if you
really want to be out here without seeing anyone trust me you can be. Or you could be like my mom
who loves seeing people on the trail because she thinks each one is a potential new friend.
And that works too. All right it's a late morning. We slept in. I mean we got nothing to do today.
Two miles to hike out. An arduous two miles uphill to hike out. So we're probably procrastinating
but we have nowhere to be so we can take our time.
Thanks for watching, i'll see you next time.