CONVICT LAKE. THAT IS JUST A GUESS, BUT WHERE EVER IT IS I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO BE UP THERE AT THIS MOMENT. IT MAKES MY HEART HAPPY. THANK YOU.

Hi Steven: it’s Ellery Lake and Bowl.

Lake Ellery

Would that be Ellery Lake? off Hwy 120?

Wish I was there too!! Nope, I didn’t know this one… but my guess now is Ellery Lake!!

I believe it’s Convict Lake, although I’ve never seen it with snow! I did come across a bear there on one of our hikes last year.

It’s Ellery Lake. Wonder if it’s started freezing over yet . . .

Okay, I recognized Ellery Lake from the image, but I hadn’t heard of Ellery “Bowl” which Michael Gordon mentioned in his response, so I did a little research. That “bowl” is pretty popular for backcountry skiing, and it turns out, there are a bunch of chutes you can access by going across the damn and hiking/climbing up. Imagine the fun for those intrepid enough to go for runs on “Chute Out,” “Banana Chute,” “S-Couloir,” and my favorite named chute, “Poop Chute.” Hmmmm. . . Wonder what the likelihood is that you could runout of snow and hit gravel or land in the lake?

Hi Steven…
I vote Virginia Lake, I don’t know the proper whether it is Little of Big but the one by the cafe/resort office. I think where you are standing is where they put the row boats.

Thanks…I love these!!

Kahlee: some of those chutes are visible in the upper left corner of Steven’s image.

as a kid and later teen i used to fish a lot at ellery with my dad. sooner or later, with no fish biting, i’d get bored and decide to take a hike up the “bowl”. eventually, it would get too steep or the boulders too big and i would head back down.