Last Day at Glacier

As we had yesterday, RAIN. This how our morning started. Jan and I had made up our mind that nothing short of a storm was going to keep us off the mountains today. So we gave the weather a chance to slow down by not going out as early as normal. We waited until about 8:30 then drove to Logan's Pass to hike the Hidden Lake trail. The first mile of the trail is all boardwalk, the next half is mixed boardwalk and regular trail to the overlook then the next mile and half was down major switchbacks to the lake. The lake from the overlook was beautiful but as we got closer to the lake we found it to be more beautiful and much larger than it had appeared from the overlook. We are ashamed to tell you that we wore long sleeve shirts, long pants and jackets. The temperature was somewhere around the upper 40's, with off and on light rain. Soon when we started back up the trail the sun came out and clouds spread out more. When we finally got back to Logan's Pass parking lot, we saw it at its capacity. In fact, we nearly witnessed a fight over a parking place. It was at this point we realized that this was our last time to be in this park and as we drove away it was nearly a sad occasion. But as we came upon St Mary Falls we decided that we wanted to see it also. We drove into the parking lot and began our short hike to the falls. Being that I have had such a hard time with adjectives in this park, all I can say is WOW, what beautiful falls at the head of St Mary Lake. What a great memory we have now. This was a remarkable visit and we still have Yellowstone and the Tetons to go.