Glacier National Park, Montana
The first day of summer. I woke up at the Apgar campground after a pretty good nights sleep in my RV (also known as the bed of my pickup). Time for some quick day hike miles prior to returning to Missoula. I started out at the McDonald Creek trail which is a gentle path through the cedars. It goes just over 3 miles up the creek then you have to return the way you came.
The trail parallels McDonald Creek. Of course I had to take the "not recommended" path out onto the rocks to look at all the falls. While this one isn't the biggest of the falls, it shows just how beautiful Montana is and why I live here.
The water coming down the mountains is so clear that even though it is several feet deep you can see the bottom clearly. The clear water sure lets you know if the fish are there or not. In this case not.
A quick shift back across the creek and three miles down the valley is the Lincoln Lake trailhead and part 2 of today's adventure. A steep climb up a bit over 1,000 feet then I connected to a fire trail that brought me over to Fish Lake. There is a shorter way but this allowed me to have the trail to myself. I only know of a few places where there are Lily Pads growing in the park, and this pretty little lake has the most. In areas the Lily's were blooming with pretty yellow flowers but my pictures of them just didn't turn out well.
I was back at the truck by 1:30 with about 15 miles in. A great day to cruise quiet trails in the main West Glacier valley while most everyone else was driving up the Going to the Sun road.
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