awesome adventure! Always good getting rewarded for some hard work!

Wow this is awesome. The underwater foootage was amazing

Fantastic!!! Well done!

Congratulations on the whiskey and first alpine Golden trout!

Thanks for sharing, I was a little worried when you got to that summit! It was so worth it when you pushed through and got to the lake! We love the Alpine Lakes Wilderness also! Not sure if that's where you were! All the best! :)

All those fish just chillin when you put your phone in the water 😮

Nice trip! We just did that last year as well. Except we took a helicopter. Best money I ever spent. Because the hike is about 6 miles and 3000' elevation gain and 6 plus hours for someone 30 years younger then me. Our lake is above the tree line at 8000' and on the eastern slopes so can get very windy so we didn't overnight. Our goldens in the lake were 4-8" and hard to catch. What saved us was going up the inlet stream to the base of a waterfall. There were spawners there with twice the colors as the lake fish. Just beautiful. I managed a 10" for the biggest fish of the day. Your fish were fatter being down lower and in a milder climate. I miss my hiking days as we have many high mountain lakes with cutthroat in beautiful locations. Now I can only do about a 4 hour return hike and live to tell about it. Hope to do another one this year.

Legit hike! Straight up! Some well earned fish too!

Nice walk. As they say in skiing, you earned your turns.

You scared that bear off it's fish dinner !

Decent little fish for such a remote lake. That ridge traverse would have been sketchy, reminds me of a spot I was on in Chelan County area few months ago.

Could of at least made the location more discreet vs showing the trailhead in the beginning. Just saying. It's not good to blast sensitive fisheries like this.