Frog Lake Overlook Trail

Our last morning in Truckee, we took the most spectacular hike of our entire trip: Frog Lake Overlook Trail. Not as strenuous as Castle Peak, now that we had a week of higher elevation hiking under our feet, and with an abundance of everything one might want on a hike: streams, fields of wildflowers, trees, sunshine, snow, rocks, weather-smoothed wood, butterflies, views.

 

At the top:

There's Frog Lake, down below:

Castle Peak wasn't far off:

S and I briefly left E on a rock at the Frog Lake Overview trail and hiked a bit toward Castle Peak, just cuz. Hundreds of Myrtle's Silverspot butterflies wafted over the ridge, heading south, but breezing past too quickly to capture in pixels.