Lion Lake 1. Lion Lake 2 and Snowbank Lake lie above the short bluff beyond.
Mount Alice (13,310 ft) looms over a pond adjacent Lion Lake 1
Chief's Head Peak (13,579 ft) and its feathered regalia above Lion Lake 1.
Tanima Peak (12,420 ft) above a pond adjacent Lion Lake 1. Copeland Mountain (13,176 ft) is in the distance.
Iced-over pond adjacent to Lion Lake 1 with Copeland Mountain behind.
Chief's Head Peak above Lion Lake 1.
The trail near the Wild Basin Trailhead.
Copeland Falls is about 0.3 miles from the Wild Basin Trailhead.
Maintained Trail near Copeland Falls.
An early viewpoint affords a better view of Copeland Mountain.
Wild Basin is llama friendly.
The first of several bridges over the North St. Vrain Creek.
Unnamed falls below Calypso Cascades.
Calypso Cascades.
The second of several bridges nearing Ouzel Falls.
The bridge over Ouzel Creek at Ouzel Falls.
Ouzel Falls.
St. Vrain Mountain (12,162 ft) and Copeland Mountain (13,176 ft) at a viewpoint following the Siskin Campsite junction.
Copeland Mountain, a mostly hidden Ouzel Peak (12,716 ft), Mahana Peak (12,632 ft), and Tanima Peak (12,420 ft) from a viewpoint after the Siskin Campsite junction.
The Thunder Lake Trail prior to the Lion Lakes junction.
After the Lion Lakes junction the trail thins and is discernable by impact and cairns.
In snows, the trail can be very difficult to follow.
Trees thin nearing Lion Lake 1, allowing a spectacular view of Chief's Head Peak.
Mount Alice near Lion Lake 1. When the snows melt in spring and summer, these clearings become marshland and alpine meadow.
Chief's Head Peak near Lion Lake 1..