Hike to Hidden Lake

During the last full week of September, the weather in Glacier National Park was perfect for hiking. The "Going-to-the-Sun" Road was closed from the west and the only access to Logan's Pass was from the less popular East side of Glacier. There had been snow earlier in the week, but it was a great day for us. We took a 3 mile round trip hike to Hidden Lake. This is what the scenery looked like as we started our hike. If you look closely, you can see the 2 Big Horn Sheep.

Cole and Rick at one of the many waterfalls along the hike.

Rick was going ahead of the rest of us for a while and he decided to leave the path for a bit to see what was on the other side of this "hill" of rock. So, we followed him and over the hill of rock we found a big huge dip that was full of more rocks and a bunch of small glaciers--soooo cool.

We spent a long time hiking around these rocks and touching the glaciers. After we were done and we returned to the main trail, we noticed that sign that said that trail we had taken was closed for reclamation. Oooops. But we were so glad that we had taken it because it was the highlight of the entire trip. We didn't want to leave, but there were other cool things to see ahead of us.

Sierra did not want to leave. We had learned that the glaciers in Glacier National Park are disappearing. In 10-20 years (depending on the source) the glaciers will have all melted. This caused Sierra some major concern. Since she had her camera that she had gotten for her birthday with her, she toke dozens and dozens of pictures. She wanted to make sure this experience was well documented so that she could explain and describe the pictures of the glaciers to her children since they will most likely have melted by the time her children are old enough to hike in Glacier National Park.

This is what we saw when we returned to the designated trail: