Just got back from a great but HOT weekend trip to Boulder Lake with Jake and Lance. This trip was my friend Lance's idea, he's been there twice. The drive took us across Route 20 to 530 to Suiattle River Road, FS Road 26 to 2660. We hit the trail with an in-car thermometer reading 99 degrees. Since no one had a watch and Lance forgot his GPS, we estimate we hiked for 4 hours mostly up hill along Tenas Creek through some old growth (thank goodness for the shade) and some open fields. The last push to the lake at 5000 feet was scambling up and over the final hill. We were welcomed by a beautiful view of the lake surrounded by Hurricane Peak. The lake was refreshing to jump into with the crazy heat. Rainbow trout were abundant along with the Grey Jays and of course huge flies and mosquitos. Saturday had some cloud cover which spared us the intense heat. Lance went up to Pear Lake while Jake and I tried to remain cool. Sunday morning we awoke with the sun (and bugs) and packed up and scurried down the trail to the truck. We stopped at Birdview Burger on Route 20 and had a great Cascade burger (a huge hamburger with sausage, bacon and cheddar)