Yesterday evening, I packed up the car with my camping gear and headed southwest to Cheyenne, Wyoming. After fueling up the car and getting some food, I headed up to Vedauwoo to dispersed camp along the Vedauwoo Glen Road. I arrived right at sunset
and while I had originally intended to sleep underneath the stars, I opted to set up the tent since it was a bit windy out.
Early this morning, I packed up camp and headed through Laramie and into the Snowy Range to do a hike I've had my eyes on for a while now. It's a circumnavigation of Browns Peak. I arrived at the trailhead parking lot at Brooklyn Lake just as the sun was rising and hit the trail, starting out on the Sheep Lake Trail.
It was a spectacular hike right off the bat, but a bit different than I had been expecting. Rather than steep, rocky expanses dotted with lakes, the lakes were instead separated by gentle, grassy slopes. I was able to watch the sun rise above the first lake I passed by.
The trail gently climbed higher and higher,
soon arriving at the first of many lakes that included a wooden sign with its name engraved on it: North Twin Lake.
The scenery was quite picturesque.
Soon enough I was able to catch a glimpse of a peak high on the main ridge of the Snowy Range.
At first I thought it was Medicine Bow Peak, but quickly realized its an unnamed peak northeast of the highest peak in the range.
I made a left and followed that trail into some of the most dramatic scenery in the Snowy Range. There was the view from North Gap Lake.
just south of South Gap Lake, I continued on. The section of trail from South Gap Lake down to Lewis Lake has to be one of the most spectacular. It did not disappoint.
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