Barclay Lake, Eagle Lake Fisherman's Trail — Sunday, Sep. 7, 2025

Today I made an unsuccessful attempt to go to the Eagle Lake from Barclay Lake.

I started the hike around 9 am and the weather was really nice, just a little drizzle.
The 4 mile long road from the Hwy 2 is in good shape. I've been to this Lake 2 times before in winter, and every time I struggled to reach the Trailhead.
Most of the potholes are gone now, seems like significant road work has been done in the past 1 and a ½ years.
only 7 cars were at the trailhead in the morning.

It took me 1 hour to reach Barclay Lake, ran into a few returning backpackers. I took a 15 minute break at the Lake and then started looking for the Eagle Lake trail.
I somehow found the trail from the 2nd Toilet sign, followed the track and ended up with a faint trail going upwards.
that's the Trail to the Eagle Lake.
However, pretty quickly I lost the trail again, there are a ton of Fallen trees in that section and navigating through that was really difficult..
after going ½ mile up, I found the Half broken Wild Sky wilderness sign, and few ribbons..
from here the trail again gets lost. I couldn't figure out which way exactly to go, as there was another huge fallen tree was in front of me.
In that short distance, I ended up eating so many spider webs ( they are everywhere 😓), and a tree branch (2nd picture) was almost about to make me blind.🥲

I realized it's not worth it, especially today! my trail pant got completely wet due to all the water from the trees. and the trail was really steep and slippery. Perhaps, I can try again on a dry summer day!

I was pretty disappointed not to make it to the Eagle Lake, but then I saw things near the Barclay Lake which made me disgusted.
Near the first pit toilet, people desecrated that area with toilet papers, Kleenex lying on the ground. It felt like someone left a paper trail to the Pit Toilet.
I felt bad and started picking up trash on the trail.
Scanned most of the campground area, found so many disgusting things! broken glass bottle, beer cans are pretty common!
Found a men's underwear (3rd picture) next to a campsite. I don't know what kind of human can do this. 🤦🏻

I picked up a few ziplocks too, Protein bar packets etc. This trail was really dirty, especially near the Lake area!
Please please follow the Leave No Traces principles..Pack it in, Pack it out.
If you can't, stay home!
Honestly, I do not enjoy picking up trash on trail.😡
At the end, I ended up picking up quite a sizable amount of trash in this trail.
Hope at least for a few days, this beautiful place could stay litter free!

Btw, There are a lot of Mushrooms growing in that forest now!
(4th picture)