Just another park

Trip Start Sep 18, 2005
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Trip End Oct 02, 2005


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Flag of United States  , Montana,
Sunday, September 25, 2005

I got up earlier than the others- eager to see where I was. The air was cold- frigid- and frost had collected in a thin layer on vegetation and tents. I looked to the west and the mountain was peering out at me, a blanket of cloud sitting beneath the peak. Finally. I walked around a bit with my camera, hoping to get a good shot. But power lines were in the way and the clouds soon burned off, leaving blue sky and shoddy lighting through the trees.

I wasn't as successful as I thought I would be with my camp stove and my new cool espresso coffee maker. In fact, I was a dismal failure. Having never actually LIT my stove before (successfully), I had to drag Michal over to do it for me. Ah ha! I impressed Sarah and Michal with my nifty pancake flipping (sans pancake flipper), but was completely failed at coffee making. Apparently, that little piece I tucked away in some unknown random location really DID have a purpose A lake
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 . The coffee DOES have to be filtered before it heads into the tube after all! Oh well...

We headed out in Sarah's beetle- up the road a bit and to a parking lot. We read the grizzly bear signs and stepped into hiking phase- passing blue lakes, mountains, a ton of various colored berries. There were 3 waterfalls- each progressively bigger. The falls at the top (Virginia Falls) were the largest and longest- dropping at a 90 degree angle over a 50 foot stone gray brown wall into a clear pool beneath.

After we got back from that foray (it was 6 miles round trip), we headed up to Logan Pass and had a look around. I won't go into details here, but I ended up heading alone up the boardwalk over the hills to catch a glimpse of Hidden Lake. It was an arduous hike, made a bit simpler by the fact that it is "family friendly" and has a boardwalk- thus negating the need for hiking boots or even tennis shoes. Too bad I was wearing my boots because walking in them is not the most pleasant thing to do and I ended up with shin splints afterwards. About an hour after I began, I reached the end of the hike (and the boardwalk). Far beneath me lay Hidden Lake- a blue gem surrounded by towering mountains. I never get tired of the sights like that one. Another hiker saw me taking pictures- asked me for a roll of film- I sold him one for $5. He said it was a deal. I think it wasn't that great.
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