Fishlake is one of the largest natural alpine lakes in Utah. It is 175 feet deep and features trophy fishing including Mackinaw trout up to 25 pounds. We took a circular route through the Fishlake National Forest to see the area for ourselves.

Johnson Valley Reservoir
Our route followed the Old Spanish Trail, used in the early 1800s by Mexican traders, Ute Indians, and American adventurers. It ran 1200 miles from Santa Fe to Los Angeles and was said to be the “longest, toughest, and crookedest trail in North America”. Dave was looking for a geocache at this informational site.
Zeds Meadow
Two more views of Johnson Valley Reservoir

Fishlake itself was clear and clean.

Beaver dam
Fishlake shoreline

The Pando Grove is one single organism of 47,000 Quaking Aspen trees. Each tree is a stem of a massive single clone with one root system. It covers over 100 acres and weighs over 6,000 tons and is one of the oldest living organisms in existence. By the way, Pando is Latin for “I spread”.

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4 Comments

Chris And Christine Mcclure · May 13, 2021 at 11:02 pm

Hope you guys are having fun. That looks awesome. Can’t wait to see you guys again

Jay Waters · May 14, 2021 at 1:45 pm

That Quaking Aspen is awesome. If you’re very quiet, can you hear it talking to itself? It must take a lot of attention to keep it’s 100 acre self organized and on track.

Alice Mcgregor · May 26, 2021 at 2:40 pm

Isn’t Pando Grove the LARGEST LIVING THING in the WORLD? AND YOU SAW IT? I am SO impressed!

Susan · May 27, 2021 at 3:33 pm

I thought Dave was trying to float the teeth on that horse or see if he was sick!

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