The Emerald Lake Trail (starts at 7,200 ft. above sea level) leads five miles up Hyalite Creek to the head of a beautiful canyon where Emerald Lake and Heather Lake sit in two amazing mountain meadows at 9,200 feet above seal level. The area nests beneath the rock walls of Overlook Mountain (10,265') and Mount Chisholm (10,333'). In the five miles to the meadows you will gain 2,000 vertical feet along switchbacks as well as a more gradual rise along the creek. About 3 m