{"id":651,"date":"2010-05-27T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:16:29","slug":"backwoods-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/backwoods-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Backwoods Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and I headed off into the Washington backcountry to look for some trophy trout holding in the high country lakes.<br \/>\nThe first lake we tried out was a series of small, seasonal bodies of water that are formed by water freezing in a lava tube, holding the winter snowmelt until the ice in the lava tube melts and releases much of the lake&#8217;s water into a stream below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10.jpg\" alt=\"Backcounty Lake 5-27-10\" title=\"Backcounty Lake 5-27-10\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10.jpg 400w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lake was an awesome place to fish and paddle; green forests and meadows surrounding a lake made out of a basin of prehistoric lava rock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kayaking a Washington Lake 5-27-10\" title=\"Kayaking a Washington Lake 5-27-10\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-2.jpg\" alt=\"Lava Basin Lake 5-27-10\" title=\"Lava Basin Lake 5-27-10\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-3.jpg\" alt=\"Kayaking Pure Glass\" title=\"Kayaking Pure Glass\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SP_Lake5-27-10-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bushwacking around the woods here is not all fun and games. There were numerous blown down trees across the roads, we finally hit one we had to chop up with my Boy Scout axe and clear the road. In the photo below, Chris chops away at a fresh, green blown down tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/RoadBlock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/RoadBlock.jpg\" alt=\"Road Block\" title=\"Road Block\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/RoadBlock.jpg 400w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/RoadBlock-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>While traveling to the next lake we got stuck in the snow and had to dig the truck out with our kayak paddles. The snow finally got deep enough so we could not get through to the lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SnowRoad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SnowRoad.jpg\" alt=\"Deep Snow on the Road\" title=\"Deep Snow on the Road\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SnowRoad.jpg 400w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SnowRoad-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of that snow covered road there is a lake full of hungry trout. 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