Taken while hiking back to the trailhead from Lake Ingalls, this view was unexpected but very welcome. We hiked the trail to the lake to then scramble up Mount Ingall's southern summit, and weren't even thinking about the fall larches until we were a few miles along the trail and started to see one, then a few, then an entire hillside of them. The day was relatively cloudy, and this was taken as we were headed home. The sun had decided to make an afternoon appearance.
We didn't originally make the trip to see the larches, but other hikers certainly did. The trail to the lake was busy, in fact it was incredibly and almost uncomfortably busy. Thankfully after turning off the main trail to scramble our way up the mountain we found some peace and quiet. As we left we found cars parked a half mile down the forest road. I don't know that I will do this hike again at this time of year, if I do it will be on a weekday, because the view is spectacular.