Snow shoes today

Today I decided to head along the Eastern Sierra to Bishop and visit some of the places I had skated before - not really expecting to skate as they have had so much snow.
Headed up to Caples Lake -  although I had heard that it was snow covered and with water in the middle.  Plenty of snow around but looked like it had ice at one end.  Although there were a couple of ice fisherman out I was not willing to cross snow covered ice so I snow-shoed around the edge of the lake (prodding the whole way) to the clear place to find amazing smooth black ice. Had a fab skate then followed my trail back.  Bit of an effort but well worth it.
Form there headed on and stopped off at Bridgeport Reservoir to find nearly the whole lake covered.  Had a another great skate before finally moving on to make sure I arrived before dark.  Fabulous snow covered scenery most of the way.