Bench Lakes

another week flew by here at Red Fish Lake Lodge! and it was an incredible week at that too :) this week at work we were deep cleaning all the cabins and oiling the wood. SO MUCH OILING. everything is made out of logs. log cabins, log chairs, log stairs, log railings, log bed frames, log walls, log ceilings, LOGS!!! lets just say i'm going to be buff this summer from all the use of my arms. doing be fooled folks, deep cleaning isn't for the faint of heart. you have to have courage man. but enough about all that jazz. what did i do for fun this week? let me tell you

the beginning of the week started off with a walk to Little Red Fish, which is about a mile and a little down the road from Red Fish Lake. its basically the same as Red Fish Lake, just the condensed version. no motor boats are permited onto Little Red Fish, that's how small it is.



photo of Little Red Fish



photo of Little Red Fish

This week was really busy with work, but I had some good times today (Saturday) with some of my new found friends! we hiked up to the Bench Lakes! the Bench Lakes consist of 4 lakes. today we were only able to get to the 1st Bench Lake because it was snow packed! it kinda sucked but it was still a blast! 3.5 in, and 3.5 out. 7 miles total. wasn't too back, a great warm up for the rest of the seasons hikes! I can't wait til all the snow melts and I can get to all the Bench Lakes

Photo of Red Fish Lake & mountains from Bench Lakes trail



Photo of Red Fish Lake from Bench Lakes trail



in order from left to right, Nikita, Bailey, and Scott.
I was up one swith-back, basically I was going a little fast.
story of my hikes
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Photo of some pretty sweet mountains from Bench Lake Trail



photo of the snow-packed trail 1/2 mile away from the 1st Bench Lake



photo of the 1st Bench Lake
kinda frozen isn't it?



happy to be at the frozen Bench Lake

   gotta say, this place I'm at in my life is AWESOME!!! I am so blessed to experience this. the adventures will continue!!  I'll keep posting more, and telling more, and living more! until next time, here's some more random pictures from this past week and stuff.

Scott and I in split rock

Top right corner: Little Red Fish
bottom: Red Fish