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Driving up from Frisco across to Diillon along Swan Mountain Road. Most of the photos came from a short hiking loop near the crest of the road as it crosses between the two towns.
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This is shortly after turning on Swan Mountain Road from Highway 9.
While some of the lake is shining blue there are still large sections frozen.
In the parking lot where the short hiking loop begins there is this plaque.
Thoughful of them to provide an out house hear the start of the loop.
The first part of the trail faces basically south so it was almost like summer.
The rocks were warm and you could see golden sand beaches across the mostly blue water.
Yet if you looked straight down instead of across the lake you could see that where the sun was not on the lake as long during the day there was still plenty of ice.
The mountain top I was walking around casts a shadow much of the day.
These rocks were at least 150' above the lake.
These chipmonks were enjoying the sunshine and didn't show the least fear of people. I suspect given the least encouragement these little critters woulld have been begging.
Looking past the rock outcrop the chipmonks were enjoying I started getting a real idea of just how large Lake Dillon is.
Looking off to the north east where the lake seemed to be the widest there was plenty of ice left.
Nothing like looking at a mountain lake with snow covered peaks in the background.
I noticed what almost looks like an ice breaker went through and left a path. I wonder if that is where one of the feeder rivers flows through the lake.
From here you wouldn't hardly think 2' of snow was around the corner.
Rounding the corner to the north side of the mountain you can see that even in the cleared area snow was plentiful.
While under the trees it was more like two foot deep.
To get to the picnic tables required crossing through the snow.
Back to Swan Mountain Road heading down to Dillon.
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