weekend at glacier

anonymous art down by the lake...


golf-ball sized hail, 2nd day in a row..

so this past week, we got some more interesting weather ... cold more than anything. we did some moderate hiking, checked out this place called the nyack flood plain. the rivers are incredibly swollen from all the snow and seasonal ice melting. apparently this year's runoff is a 5-year runoff (this volume comes about once every 5 yrs), so it's pretty big. on friday, we celebrated the end of our first week by checking out this new little brew company, the flathead lake brewing company, a little bit north up the east shore from us. it was a really nice place with lots of cool sailing regalia decorating the walls and a sweet deck overlooking the lake, and of course good beer. on saturday, we ventured up into glacier NP for an overnight trip to lincoln lake. though the hike was only 8 miles which isn't that long even with big packs, it took us about 8 hours to get to the lake. the trail goes through lots of bogs, and of course with all the snowmelt, there were lots of streams crossing the trail that weren't normally there.. making things even more interesting. we eventually got there and found a small bluegreen lake with a huge cascading waterfall coming down the sides of the valley walls, and lots of big majestic snow covered peaks around us. the night was pretty cold, but fortunately we had no grizzly friends visiting us during the night (we basically had to bear bag everything..) the hike back was nice because it cleared up a lot, so it was a tad warmer, and a whole lot more downhill than getting there :) we got to the end and found two rangers patiently waiting by our car for us.. apparently the lady that gave us our backcountry permit issued it without listing the license plate, so they were staking the car out to try to figure out who had been parked there for so long. and of course on the way home we had to stop and get ourselves a verrry big meal :)