Little Needle Lake

With Little Needle Peak skylined beyond. A small cirque lake in the Sierra Nevada a mile or so off the Pacific Crest Trail west of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort. We almost didn't find the lake because the use path to it wasn't _nearly_ as well-defined as the guidebook said! I was glad I'd brought the Kindle with the topo map. The left inset is a telephoto view of the large glacial erratic improbably perched on the ridge to the left of the peak. The right inset is a view across the lake behind me. There was more evidence of bear activity around the lake than we've seen anywhere else in the Sierra--I would not want to camp overnight here!