45 Traditional Cache

This one is definately a High Sierra Lake. Elevation 8686.
Named for multiple reasons....

• the average water temperature here is probably pretty close to 45 degrees (I did not test it out today)
• depending on your approach, at some points it may feel like you are climbing at a 45 degree angle (but the designated path is much easier)
• the average wind speeds the day I placed this one. Surely there were some higher speed gusts, esp on the west side of the ridge along the PCT. I could not stand up to take a picture of Upper Blue Lake, I had to sit down and hold the camera out from behind a large rock. On the way back walking into the wind, it was more strenuous than walking up one of those 45 degree slopes . I could also feel spray blowing off the lake from almost 300 yards away .
• 45 degree - oops I forgot