This week's hike in Glacier is to Avalanche Lake. We get an early start as the parking lot for this hike fills up early. We get there around 8:30 and get the last parking spot.
It starts with the beginning of the Trail of the Cedars
The size of some of these trees are really amazing
Uh Oh! The start of the Avalanche Lake trail is reminiscent of Minnesota - stairs!
A portion of Avalanche creek
A most beautiful walk in the woods
Can you see the forest for the trees?
a river runs through it
Looks like some boulders got rolled down in an avalanche at some point
Someone snuck in a photo of me.
The mountains come into view
The back to the thick forest
A cool spider web catches the sun and my eye
The trail changes to thick vegetation
and then the Lake come into view
Quite the log jam at the mouth of the lake
We move on further to get to the water
Zoom in to the waterfalls coming off the snow melt from the mountains
We decide to continue on to the very end of the Lake. Along the way we see some buck walking along the shore line. We stop because I figure they wouldn't go far because of the people on the beach. Sure enough they make the turn up to the trail.
They grab a couple of bites and then mosey on down the trail.
End of trail?
I don't think so
There it is!
What a view!
I am always amazed at how crystal clear the water is
Time to make our way back
Almost back to the beginning
We didn't see any bears but a couple weeks later in talking to a guest in the hotel that did the hike, they could not walk to the end of the Lake as it had been closed due to bear activity
On the way home we decide to detour and see the Hungry Horse Dam
It is pretty impressive. Built in 1953, it is made from almost 3.1 million cubic yards of concrete. It is 564 feet tall, 2,115 feet wide, 39 feet thick at the top and 330 feet thick at the bottom. It is the 11th highest dam in the United States and along with 19 other dams on the Columbia River produces 5 billion kilowatts of power a year
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