As you can see there is not a lot of elevation gain to the lake. To Triple Divide Pass... that is another story... and another hike.
The photos with hike734 on them were taken by Jake. Jake has a blog and a Facebook page.
http://www.hike734.com/blog/
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At the start of the trail. The mountain in the left is "Bad Marriage Mountain".
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Medicine Grizzly Mountain and the North Fork Cutbank Creek.
Atlantic Falls.
Here are two short videos I took at Atlantic Falls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCum1vEhyuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXONdZAWbg
Jake getting a picture of a frog. Water is still on the trail.
This is after the point where the trail splits. I am on the trail to Medicine Grizzly Lake (ahead). The trail to Triple Divide Peak (the far pointy mountain on the right) goes up along the mountain side on the very right. The far large mountain on the left is Razoredge Mountain.
Wildflowers. Even though this is July 19, snow was still here.
Looking back down the valley from where we came.
At Medicine Grizzly Lake, this is a stream from one of the waterfalls seen in the photo before the previous photo. The logs in another stream (from the waterfall in the previous photo) was as far as we went. We decided not to cross this stream. There wasn't much further to go anyway.
Jake taking photos of waterfalls then a marmot.
The marmot posing for Jake.
The marmot posing for me - briefly.
The marmot was a bit of a pain. One had to watch it at all times as it knew that people and packs meant food and it would circle around and around. When we didn't feed it it would try to sneak up to our packs.
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Patti can't resist going into lakes - no matter how cold the water is.
The Glacier Fund partnered with and sponsored Jake on his hikes. Here Jake is posing with "Billy Bowman", the Glacier Fund mascot, on his back.
Clouds started to come over the divide by the time we left the lake. During the hike back to the car Jake planned to videotape and take photos of things he neglected on the hike to the lake. Since Gene, Ivy, and Joyce had left the lake well before Patti, Jake and I, eventually Patti and I left Jake to film. The clouds built and thickened as we hiked back to Patti's car. Ten to fifteen minutes after we got back to her car the rain started. It was a good rain and lasted a while.
During our journey home we drove over Going-to-the-Sun Road. The road was only opened on July 13 this year. This is the latest opening ever in the road's 78 years of existence even with all the workers and modern equipment available to clear the road of snow.
The mountain in the clouds is Heaven's Peak. Near the right side of the photo is the end of the ridge and where Heaven's Peak Lookout stands. The park planned in 2011 to restore and stabilize this historic structure originally built by conscientious objectors during World War II. The plan was to start work the end of July and it would last until the end of August. As you can see there was still a lot of snow on July 19. The Park decided to postpone the work until 2012.
What happened to global warming? According to the global warming believers Glacier Park's glaciers are suppose to be gone in a couple decades. Kind of hard for that to happen when areas without glaciers are now having snow longer, and sometimes all year. I know of a number of people who didn't hike Floral Park this year because the snow never went away.
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