As we traveled up the Methow Valley the sky was bright blue with lots of clouds...the closer we got to Winthrop the stormier the weather looked....lots of dark clouds moving around and building up.....we decided as long as it wasn't raining really hard we would go ahead and hike.....The Patterson Mountain Trail starts across the road from the actual lake, nice parking area....climbs just a little ways up the side of the mountain, until you pass through two gates depending on which direction you take.....the trail makes a loop, from there the flower show really started and continued the rest of the trail.....at one point you have to climb up and over a wood ladder secured to a tree to get over a barb wire fence....pretty creative way to pass over the fence...would be very interesting to watch the runners that were going to hit the trail on Sunday complete this section....the Balsam roots, Sunflowers were starting to decline...but still plenty to get good s...
Hiking is a way of life