We set out on the Fourth of July around 10:30am. There is still a water crossing like others have mentioned about a mile or so past Pete Lake. If you follow the main trail across, water is passable, and only goes up to about your knee. We brought Tevas to do our crossing. There are a few downed trees for the next half of the hike, but easy to navigate. It took us about 6 hours to reach Spectacle Lake and set up camp.
Busier than expected, but probably due to the holiday weekend. We spent two nights at the lake. Well worth the miles!
I am mainly writing this report to express disappointment in a group we ran into on the evening of Saturday July 5th. A group of 5 people were hiking down into the basin with a speaker blasting EDM music. It was incredibly jarring for everyone else in the area. As we were relaxing the rest of the evening, we noticed the group collecting wood throughout the area. They proceeded to build/start a fire where they set up camp in the very middle of the lake. We were across the water from them and reminded them that there is a fire ban, which they ignored. Another group shouted burn ban. Another camper walked over to remind them as well. All members of this group quite literally did not acknowledge that anyone was speaking to them and continued their fire the rest of the night. Outside of their ignorance, it was also pretty disappointing watching the number of other campers on their side of the lake that walked by the fire and did not say anything.
I am not really sure what the correct course of action would have been if people genuinely are not even acknowledging people trying to talk to them, but regardless, just wanted to remind everyone that you cannot have fires within 1/2 a mile of the lake and on top of that, there is a complete burn ban for the area.
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