Wallowas Aneroid Lake
— — a basin held above the world.
Not only on a wall.
“An alpine lake at about 7,500 feet, set in a glacial cirque under Aneroid Mountain and Pete's Point. The trail climbs roughly six miles and 3,000 vertical feet from the Wallowa Lake trailhead, through Douglas fir and into subalpine larch. A scattering of private cabins along the south shore dates to the 1920s. Mornings here are very quiet. from the studio
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The place, in three passes.
Aneroid Lake lies at roughly 7,500 feet in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, in Wallowa County, Oregon. The standard approach is the East Fork Wallowa River trail from the south end of Wallowa Lake, about six miles one way with 3,000 feet of climb. Aneroid Mountain rises above the lake to 9,702 feet, with Pete's Point at 9,675 feet across the basin. A small group of inholding cabins, predating wilderness designation, sits along the southwestern shore.
Eagle Cap is the largest wilderness in eastern Oregon at 359,991 acres, and Aneroid sits well inside it, beyond cell coverage and beyond the day-hike radius. Most visitors are backpackers staying one or two nights. The cabin owners pack in on horses from the Wallowa Lake pack station. Wind in the whitebark pine is often the only sound the basin gives back, and the granite walls flatten distant voices into something like an old recording.
The trail is usually snow-free by early July and reliably open through late September. Mosquitoes are heaviest in the first three weeks after melt-out, then ease. The lake holds brook trout introduced decades ago, and the fishing is steady from a float tube. By the second week of October, larches turn gold around the basin and the first heavy snow can close the upper trail without much warning.