It was 5 miles to the first campground. As you can see from the sign below, Logging Lake is a long lake. Someday I will go further. Maybe all the way to Grace Lake.
The elevation change is not much.
It was a cool morning with the temperature in the lows 30s when we started. But the sun burned out the fog and it soon warmed up and people began to shed their jackets.
We soon walked through the remnants of an old fire. I believe this was the Wolf Gun fire from 2003.
I never noticed it until now but Logging Lake is almost the same latitude as the most northern part of the Going-to-the-Sun (the Loop area). The long drive up the North Fork road to get to Logging Lake, and the remote area, makes one think they are further north than they actually are.
On the hike back to the car we heard a few howls by a wolf some distance away. Here we are listening for the howls and looking for signs of a wolf.
The Park employees had chainsawed quite a number of downed trees along the trail.
Three tenths of a mile from the campground is a ranger patrol cabin. We ate our lunch on the picnic table in front of the patrol cabin.
Here is the patrol cabin's outhouse. Fancy... but they forgot the door. Another suggestion...if they leave the door off, turn the outhouse around so the people could have a view of the lake while tending to their business.
Near the outhouse were two pile of branches stacked as shown. It looks to be a slash pile for burning. But they wouldn't do that in the Park would they? And certainly not so close to other trees.
Logs from a tree cut down next to the patrol cabin.
The view up the lake from the patrol cabin.
The campground only has three sites.
View of the lake from the campground.
At the campground we got a fire going. Last time Patti was here she didn't notice many sticks and branches for burning so she asked me to pack some firewood along. We were able to easily find more dead wood for the fire.
We roasted marshmellows and made S'mores from the ingredients that Patti brought along.
Patti and Jerry each brought a bottle of wine to have with our S'mores. Here is one of the S'mores I made. Some people ate plenty of S'mores and got a sugar buzz. The wine had nothing to do with it.
Video of the group making and and eating S'mores at the campfire. 21 seconds long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZfBQcxvEZM
Near the campfire area was a metal can for watering. The sign said it was for watering the small pines trees planted near the can. We found the can to be handy to completely put out the fire before we left and returned to the car.
Here is how we fill the can with water.
Here is the bridge one crosses to pass from Polebridge into Glacier Park.
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