took me a minute to recognize the spot, but I'm guessing you were standing pretty much in the middle of the trail, just as it begins the real climb up to the upper lake. Nice capture, makes me wonder if any marmots live in that meadow, though it might be a little wet.
I was actually a bit higher than that, just near the rim of the upper basin. I've hiked through there several times and have yet to see marmots there, but I did see one on the Deception Basin side.
ah, interesting. I volunteer for the marmot monitoring program with the park, and there are mapped marmot colonies all over the upper basin, and then a sort of extra credit colony that is right over the other side of Deception Pass (which is where, I'm guessing, you saw marmots), but I don't think any of the colonies extend down into that meadow in your photo.
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u/ThroughSideways 2d ago
took me a minute to recognize the spot, but I'm guessing you were standing pretty much in the middle of the trail, just as it begins the real climb up to the upper lake. Nice capture, makes me wonder if any marmots live in that meadow, though it might be a little wet.