Day 3 - Upper Russian Lake

Here we go

Lovely

We are just back from a fun but bear ridden backpack through the Kenai Peninsula wilderness. Six of us trekked from Cooper Lake down to Russian River Campground spending two nights in National Forest Service Cabins. Our first night was at Upper Russian Lake Cabin. According to Isabel to was a, "really nice trail and the cabin was super quaint and cute." The 9.5 mile trail rolls, generally down, by lakes, through bogs and next to streams. Tons of bear berry-grass type poop was on the trail and we even heard a grunt in the bushes as we all armed ourselves with bear spray and piled together screaming,"Go away bear." It did, of course. The cabin had a row boat but there was quite a bit of wind - white caps so going too far was not only difficult, it was a bit dangerous. Around the fire pit were carved benches, and carved sculptures on the wood shed and in the outhouse. The cabin itself has gorgeous birch logs and a beautiful view of the lake. With a fire going it was comfy. So comfy that the girls slept over 12 hours.