The Channel on Lake Winona :: Lakes Personal Narratives Wyoming Essays

The Channel on Lake Winona There is a small town called Boulder that is located in the backcountry of Wyoming. This spot is one of my family’s favorite vacation sites. My grandparents have built a log cabin back there and we visit it every summer. Along with visiting my grandparents, we spend a week backpacking in the mountains of the Wind River Range. Back in this area there are tons of lakes to camp by and fish. However, in order to reach the first lake you have to hike an enormous seven miles, but we take the easy way out, we horseback ride in. We horseback ride into one of the furthest spots and have the people drop us off, and from then on it is up to us to hike to further points and to hike out. Throughout the hiking trips we see many different lakes and see tons of backcountry. However, there is one favorite spot that I love to go to and that is the channel on Lake Winona. Lake Winona is most definitely not one of the prettiest lakes, but it has much meaning to me. There is a little spot that is one of my favorites to go and sit at and cast out to fish. In order to get to this spot you have to do a bit of non-trail hiking. You have to climb over downed logs and walk through shrubs and climb over the top of massive rocks. But once you finally reached this treasured spot, you have reached the channel of Lake Winona. There is a little grove in one of the rocks that bases right up against the water that almost resembles a built in chair. That is where I love to sit. As I begin to sit down, I see a fish jump out of the water and back down in. It happens in a blink of the eye that you almost do not even see the fish; all you see is the round ring that is left on the top of the water by the fish. As I sit there I look all around and notice all of the beautiful scenery that I have to observe.