ABOVE: On the lip of the Midway Lake bench, the entire Blackcap Basin area can be embraced.
The Portal Lake Bench and Beyond
There are many good reasons to get up to the Midway Lake bench. To see Portal Lake bench and its lakes and ponds. To see Blackcap Basin spread out like a map. To see barren Midway Lake and pretty Cathedral Lake and Chapel Lakes. To see and perhaps cross the pass into Goddard Creek Canyon. To see Finger Peak, Mt. Goddard, and many awesome unnamed peaks. Or just to be...
