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The wind blew almost constantly during the night, leading us to have
very little sleep. But we got up early and got out of camp by 7:45am.
Crown Lake
Crown Lake
We followed the trail past Crown Lake and then descended for about
a half hour to Robinson Lakes. It doesn't look like as nice of a place
to camp as Crown Lake. It also looked like no one had camped there
last night.
Robinson Lake
Robinson Lake
There's more than one lake here. There's a larger one, then after we continued
on the trail we could see another on the left further up. After another
half hour of descending, we reached an intersection and the end of the
loop section of our hike. To the left would be the trail to Peeler Lake we'd
taken 5 days earlier. So after a short break we took a right turn to start the
descent back to the trailhead.
Trees at Robinson Lake
After descending through the forest we reached the series of about a dozen switchbacks.
We started to see some hikers coming up, possibly some who had camped at Barney Lake the
night before. Next we reached the aspens and the short uphill climb before descending
along the shore to Barney Lake. The wind was blowing at Barney Lake, just as it had
been at Crown Lake.
After a break at Barney Lake, we continued to the steep overgrown descent and then out
into the open for a while. After a final break under one of the few trees here, we
continued the rest of the way to the parking lot, through the forest, back through
Mono Village.
The parking lot was kind of a mess, with puddles of water everywhere. Apparently it
had rained significantly at some point in the past day or two. But it was sunny
skies now.
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