Glacier National Park Day 2

Hike to Hidden Lake and other images along the loop

Weeping Wall, and Various other images

Trail of the Cedars, Avalanche Creek, Green Pond

We got up early on July 6th and headed into Glacier National Park to travel the Sunrise Loop. We drove into the park a ways and ran into construction. While waiting in a line of traffic we saw a ram on the mountainside. It was fun to watch him while we talked to the construction lady. We then made it to our first site to hike up to Hidden Lake. The trail was all covered in snow so it was a tough hike. It was fun though. We tromped up the hill and pretended to ski down. At the top we saw two mountain goats. They were within a couple of feet of us. We watched them for awhile and then we made it up to look over the lake. It was still frozen so hard to see.

Next we drove further on the loop and saw Weeping Wall. It was a mountainside that was covered with waterfalls. It was very cool to see. We took pictures from the car and pulled over and took a few too. It was incredible!

As we were driving we saw this river and pond that looked so green. We stopped and walked down to it to take some pictures. Our pictures don't do it justice. It was simply beautiful. An incredible sight to see. Mackay thought if he took some of the water it would be green, but it wasn't. We now have a bottle of mountain water from Glacier National Park.

Further on in the trail was a dense forest of pine trees. We stopped and took another hike up to a lake. I can't remember what it was called but the river we followed was Avalanche Creek. Walking through the tree was great! The hike was about 2 miles so it took us a little while to do. Up at the lake there were 3 waterfalls in the distance feeding into the lake. We also saw a deer on the way down. It wasn't too afraid of people and came fairly close to Justin. It was a beautiful hike and we were glad we did it. There was a lot of people on the trail so we didn't care for how crowded it was. Many of them had on bear bells. I suppose the bells were to scare away bears. We just thought that they sounded like elves, besides we were hoping to see a bear, but not up close. Oh, the trail we went on was called the Trail of the Cedars.

We made it all the way through the park seeing several lakes, rivers, snow covered mountains, and trees. Our last stop of the day was called Goatlick. It was a hill that was made of salt stone that the goats come to often and lick the rock to get the sodium they need. Justin said he could see some goats on the hill, but I couldn't. They blended in too well.