Island Lake
Boomerang Lake
Twin Lakes
Enchanted Pool

This is a fairly popular summer trail (at least the section between Wrights and Twin Lakes). After the meadow at the end of the Wrights Lake, you start to climb, and continue to for most of the way - not difficult, just steady.

The trailhead begins at the paved parking lot at the far end of the camp grounds at Wrights Lake.

After leaving the trees, shortly after the cutoff to Grouse Lake,, the trail is wide open and mostly on granite. It's actually much easier than the dirt, rootbound, and rock strewn sections of trails in the area.

The first lake the trail passes is western half of Twin Lakes. It is quite popular with dayhikers and picnickers.

Next is a small lake (big pond) named for its shape (possibly by an Aussie expatriate). If you have a vivid imagination, you too might be inspired to call it Boomerang Lake.

Although the trail doesn't pass along the shores of the eastern half of Twin Lakes, you do get a distant view of part of it..

The next body of water isn't named on any map that I've seen, and may in fact be seasonal. It is a depression in the granite that the stream between Island Lake and Twins Lakes collects in.

And finally, our lunch spot and ultimate destination, Island Lake. It is tucked into a 'cirque' in the Crystal Range of the Sierra Nevadas with many 9.000'+ peaks surrounding it.

On the way back down, after passing the Twins, we set off down the granite in order to catch Enchanted Pool. Although there is no trail, the going is easy and the GPS has a waypoint for the pool.

Before we reached the pool, we came across a weathered granite wall - possibly left behind by a wayward band of Mayans - quite impressive!

Reaching the Enchanted Pool was a bit of an anticlimax. The stream had dried so no fresh water was filling it. The still water had taken on the color of tea due to the tannin and wasn't particularly inviting.

It never ceases to astound us when a seed of some kind finds the tiniest crevice in the rocks and attempts to make a go of it. Life is amazing, isn't it?