It is a nice small lake.
I continued a little further and could see the next lake in the distance. It was at this point I decided I had seen all I wanted to and it was time to turn around.
The funny thing that happened around this time is after not seeing any sign of life the whole day a dog trotted past me at 12,000 ft. I think I was more thrilled to see him that he was of me since he just kept trotting past me without sniffing me. His owner then past by about a minute later.
Not much more worth mentioning happened on the way down. It was on the way down that tons of people were on the trail. When I got back down to almost the end it really got slow with a line of about 15-20 people stuck behind each other. It took forever to get out of there. I then took the one lane road out as quickly as possible.The next few days I suffered from the after affects of something. I am not sure if it was dehydration or heat stroke related, but I would feel okay until I was exposed to the sun. I would suddenly feel like the sun was sucking the energy out of me. I would feel okay with the shady trees around, but out in the open I was miserable. For about a week there weren't any clouds out at all, then we had the one day it rained (the Tioga Pass video I showed), then a few days later the Yosemite fire went up. I ended up feeling better by about the time we had that one day of rain.
I have been kind of reminded of that period after the climb recently since I am still recovering from the sickness I had over the past few weeks. I have been really lethargic and have just wanted to rest a lot which I can't afford to do too much of.
