So Bryon, is this trail a current trail in the Olallie Lakes area or an abandoned one? If it is not abandoned, is it the Lodgepole Trail?

Don

Rob - out of your list of names there is one that actually not mentioned yet. The trail in question - and a second slightly shorter trail - will get you to the dead end Double Peaks Trail #735. Since Double Peaks Trail starts close to two miles into a hike up there on a trail named something else, I did not consider Double Peaks Trail a correct answer. I did state something to that effect earlier.

Don - it is very much not abandoned. A steady stream of through hikers. Lodgepole Trail is quite a ways off.

Most or all of you have been on this trail, but since you probably just got out of your car, you may have breezed by without noticing this pond on your way up to the viewpoints and sub-alpine lakes above.

Bryon

There are only two trails that bring you to the Double Peaks Trail, either the PCT or the Red Lake Trail?

Are you on the Pacific Crest Trail, just south of Head Lake?  I don't think I've ever been on this section of that trail, maybe that's why I'm having such a hard time picturing it!

I suppose it could be on Top Lake Trail but the pond would need to be Spring melt only to be standing near the vicinity of the incline.

D 2.