Leon Turnbull Photography

There are some nice little lakes up in the Mt. Shasta City area which I had not known about before. They provide some wonderful views of the great Mt. Shasta mountain. But apparently, we were not the only ones to think so. There were quite a few backpackers camping up at this lake, called Heart Lake. As we (unintentionally) trampled through their makeshift campsite in a hurry to find a spot to photograph the sunrise, I am sure we probably woke some of them up. Especially my dog, Kaya, who has to go sniff everything in sight, including some people sleeping under the stars in a sleeping bag only without a tent. I am quite sure that I would not want to do that up here in bear country. Would you want a bear coming up to your sleeping bag in the middle of the night, sniffing you out for a late night snack? I don’t think so. I wonder if any of these people thought they were being sniffed out by a bear when my dog trotted on up to them. heh heh. Well, they should be up to see the sunrise anyway. It was a gorgeous one, thanks to all the smoke and haze in the valley.