Okay so here we are or at least I am. Believe it or not Chad and I need a
little bit of time away from each other and we don't always do things together.
I am here with my family and this is Big Trinity Lake. We were planning to go to
Grandjean. Chad and I made a video about the Sawtooth Lodge and Grandjean Idaho
a little while back and you can see that video right there by clicking that card.
Unfortunately wildfires started and so we had to change plans so this is
my plan B and not a bad plan B. I have never been here before, the interesting
thing about this lake is that the season to come up here is really short it's
about 8,000 feet in elevation and it's open between July 15th and
October 15th and that's because it snows up here it's actually kind of chilly
it's raining. This campground has 17 spots, they're first-come first-serve so
you have to get up here early to get one of these spots. Obviously if you want to
backpack into this area they're spots around there. Getting up here it was
about a three-hour drive from Boise. Do you need a four-wheel drive to get here?
That depends, how much do you like your car? Sarah believes her car can go
anywhere and so we got here with a two-wheel drive. Oh other thing, first
thing, we hopped out of the car, boom mosquitoes were on us. Mosquitos are
bad here. I get it you're in the outdoors there's always
gonna be mosquitos. I spend a lot of time in the outdoors, this is bad.
Bring a lot of mosquito repellent. We brought an actual mosquito tent that
really works out well. Cuz you're right next to a body of water, you're right, I'm
standing in a swamp. So we've been here a whole two hours and there is a moose in
the lake. I can't tell if it's a male moose or a female moose. It's big though,
it's really big. You don't see horns? We think it's a female, Sarah doesn't see
horns. A good rule that I learned from Mr. Hank Patterson was when you see a
large animal like that, don't be running up on it. Don't be trying to tickle its nuts.
Don't be trying to take it home as a pet. You know moose are great when you see
them from the safety of inside your $%#$&!^ car.
Treyden and Sarah don't know how to pump up a stand up paddle board properly. What, we don't!?
You gotta get the butt out it's all in the butt out. This is the professional
way to pump up stand up paddle boards. I don't think it is. So when you go to the
lake next time with your family make sure you're doing the proper form.
Look at that it's already full. See, it's because of the form.
So here's the thing about Big Trinity Lake is that
the road around it is this U. It doesn't go all the way around it and as
you'll see coming behind me a lot of people will bring their four by fours or
their trucks down here looking for a day use spot. And there is no day use spot.
So these people will go by us and then they'll get to the end over here which
will be a dead end and then they'll turn around and they'll come back by us and
here we go five minutes later our ATV's have turned around and will be
passing back through our campsite in three, two, one.
And it's not even noon yet and these are like the thirtieth
group to do this. I feel like I am camping next to a freeway.
So I think I'm starting to figure this area out a little bit. So when you come into the Big
Trinity Lake a lot of people tend to go right to try to find a day use area and
there's not really a day use area over there. There's a sign that says day use
parking that connects to a bog, that's full of mosquitoes, that's not really
worth anything unless you're gonna just quickly park your car and throw an
inner-tube or a canoe into the lake. What you want to do is you want to get in and
you want to go left and you want to make it out to this parking lot, okay. This is
where the trail heads start. These trail heads go back into the Trinity Mountains
back into the smaller lakes they also run along the side of the big lake and
along there you can find great day use spots. Places that aren't full of mud.
They're still going to be some mosquitoes but places to fish places for
easy access for your paddleboard and your canoes and then this is where you
start all your hiking back into the Trinity Lakes and this parking lot's
great. A lot of places for you to park. It's got fresh water, it's got a bathroom.
So this is where I would start my trip if I didn't already have a campsite.
We've come to a crossroads and we have finally found a sign thanks to Sarah.
Sarah really wanted a sign. So we got Green Island Lake where Green Island like down
that path. Fiddle Lake down that path. After much deliberation we decided
on Fiddle Lake probably because it was just a good distance, but this is great
hiking country and could be great backpacking country as well. So this is
why the season for this area is so late in the year. We're here in the end of
July and look. Yep that's snow, there's snow on the ground.
Now we have just found this Fiddle Lake. This reminds me of Bloomington Lake,
another hidden oasis in southeastern Idaho, and if you want to know more about
that you can see Chad and I's video about Bloomington right there. And I'm guessing
that like Bloomington this lake is a little bit on the nipply side so I did
bring my shorts so I might take a dip
You look like a pussy just do it.
Swim around a little.
No I'm good. No it's not that warm? It's not that warm.
The Trinity Lake region is just a gorgeous region. It's beautiful, it's
nice and cool up here, it's a great place when summer gets too hot to come.
Now there are tons of mosquitoes up here also a lot of four-wheeling, ATV, razers,
whatever you call them up here. I personally am not a fan of that, but if
you are it's a great place to do that. If you're not what I would suggest to you
is parking at big Trinity Lake and backpacking into the smaller lakes and
finding a spot there and that's exactly what we're gonna do next time. So hit
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