About Pool of Jade
The Bear Lake Corridor / Flattop Area setting gives Pool of Jade its frame: a hard pool, 11,590 feet high, and positioned on the east side of the Continental Divide. The name is marked informal in the lake data.
The listed approach is 6.5 miles one-way from Bear Lake TH (off-trail), but this should be treated as a route-finding objective rather than a simple maintained-trail hike. The name is informal, and the route is off-trail. In this area, the Flattop side of the Bear Lake area is higher and quieter than the short lake chain below.
The NPS hiking table lists Flattop Mountain as a 4.4-mile one-way climb from Bear Lake, which helps explain why nearby lakes in this area feel higher and more committing than their map distance alone suggests.
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