I'd never been to Hazard Lake before. As we were leaving, my friend Julie said, "Consider the name. Y ou really want to camp there?" Julie isn't an outdoor person. Three hundred thousand acres of the Payette Forest burned during the Blackwell/Chicken Complex fires of 1994. Ten years later, things are still looking a little bombed out, but little trees are coming up all over and flowers are in abundance.
We camped at the trailhead to Scribner Lake last night. Neither of us had been there before, so we got up this morning to hike in and fish it. The lake is "a Monet"--beautiful from a distance, but up close it's a mess. It was absolutely full of weeds and I'm not sure there was a single fish in it.
Scribner Lake
