Lake 8262
Is unquestionably the prettiest of the Red Mountain/Cat Lakes area. However, since I was here last time in 2006,
the trash brothers have been visiting. There was far more garbage than last time, and far more than I would
have expected at such an obscure little lake. So much so that 1) It was unquestionably brought in on
a pack animal, because no backpacker is going to haul in multiple bottles of booze, and 2) way more than
I could clean up and haul out, which I would have normally done. At one point at the end of 7850 I stumbled across two
5-gallon buckets. I kind of wondered if they might have been dragged in and left by the crews fighting the fires. Who knows.

Lake 8262 from well down the Red Mountain ridge.	And Lake 8262 from the old lookout. Sadly, an partially overcast, and smoky day. Not good for picture-taking.