Hiking to Lower Fuller Lake

In this video, the dogs and I take a late spring hike up to a partially frozen lower Fuller Lake. The trail crosses several distinct habitats in it's ascent to the lakes: mature mixed white spruce forest with stands of mountain hemlock, wet brushy creek bottom sites with cow parsnip and devil’s club, alder and willow brush on open slopes and lake edges, and a subalpine lake.

Although we were stopped by soft wet spring snow on the upper reaches of the trail, it eventually leads to some of the oldest trees in the area. According to core samples taken by federal biologists, some of the mountain hemlocks growing near tree line at Upper Fuller Lake sprouted in the 1500s.

DATE FILMED: May 18, 2021

Trailhead: Sterling Highway at mile 57.0
Difficulty: Moderate
Length (to lower Fuller Lake): 2.1 miles 3.3 km
Time: 2-3 hrs.
Elevation gain: 1400 ft. 426 m


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