The trail starts at the Lake MacDonald parking lot. The trail is the one that goes to Sperry Chalet and beyond that, Gunsight Pass. First, there is a side trail to Mt Brown overlook (10 on map), then there is the side trail to Snyder Lake.
When we started, the trail was covered in dead tamarack needles. Then a little snow. Then more and more snow the higher we climbed.
By the time the Snyder Lake trail branched off from the Gunsight Pass trail we already had done a fair bit of climbing. Bill's foot was bothering him so he turned around and went back to Joyce's car. Joyce, Sue Ann and I continued on.
The day was beautiful: a severely clear blue sky and no wind. The temperature was in the 30s and it was great to be out in a winter mountain wonderland.
At Snyder Lake was a wooden rail for people to tie their livestock. We had to go across a small bridge to reach the camping area. We looked about for the place to access the lake but didn't really find any. We wandered about before deciding to stop at a small area along the lake. Maybe without all the snow there would have been a better area to sit and have have lunch and enjoy the lake view. With all the snow we had to eat our lunch standing up. Joyce munched on some snow on a small tree's branches.
While the creek was free of ice...
...the lake was iced over and had snow covering the ice. It was very beautiful.
It started to cloud up on our walk back to the car.
A view of Lake McDonald as we hiked back.
In August 2008 a person on a solo backpacking trip went missing in Glacier and, even after an extension search of the back country, he was never found. There are still posters up.
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