Search results for: “iceberg lake”

  • Columbine Bay

    Columbine Bay

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    Jake Bramante

    Columbine Bay – 4.7mi / 7.5km Follow the Colorado River as it travels from Shadow Mountain Lake to Lake Granby. The trail begins by the Green Ridge Campground where you’ll cruise through sagebrush meadows to the dam. You’ll get unimpeded views as you cross over the dam, with the Colorado River exiting the lake beneath…

  • Ranger Meadows Loop

    Ranger Meadows Loop

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    Jake Bramante

    Ranger Meadows Loop – 4.3mi / 6.9km This quiet loop combines the scenic Shadow Mountain Lake with the serene, open Ranger Meadows. The trail begins by the Green Ridge Campground where you’ll cruise through sagebrush meadows to the dam. You’ll get unimpeded views as you cross over the dam, with the Colorado River exiting the…

  • North Fork Quinault River

    North Fork Quinault River

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    Jake Bramante

    North Fork Quinault River – 13.4mi / 21.5km The hike up the North Fork Quinault River delivers with a lush rain forest, a gorgeous river, and countless feeder streams cascading along the way. You step out of your car and into the green wonderland that is the Quinault Rain Forest. While the trail starts out…

  • Park Creek and Two Medicine Pass

    Park Creek and Two Medicine Pass

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    Jake Bramante

    I started out this trip by the Walton Ranger station entrance in the southeast corner of Glacier National Park. The long 14 mile walk up Park Creek to the Upper Park Creek patrol cabin and campground is a treed and non strenuous hike… just a bit boring with very limited views. Once you hit Upper…

  • Easter Weekend 2013

    Easter Weekend 2013

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    Jake Bramante

    I’m getting antsy for hiking with all of the beautiful weather we’ve been having so my wife and I headed up to Glacier National Park again on Saturday of Easter weekend. While we didn’t see anything big (although we did see wolf, bear and moose tracks) we saw lots of beautiful scenery and loads of…

  • Looking for Moose

    Looking for Moose

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    Jake Bramante

    On Memorial Day my wife and I headed out to the Many Glacier valley in search of moose. My wife loves moose and, even though I was just there, I wanted to walk the Bullhead Lake trail to see if we could see a moose and check out how fast the snow was melting, besides,…

  • Paradise Point

    Paradise Point

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    Jake Bramante

    Paradise Point – 1.3mi / 2.1km Paradise Point is located on the southern shore of Two Medicine Lake. This short walk is in the trees until right before you get to the shores of the lake. Rising Wolf Mountain dominates the view across the lake, making this a wonderful spot to sit and reflect. Trailhead:…

  • Aster Park Overlook

    Aster Park Overlook

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    Jake Bramante

    Aster Park Overlook – 3.8mi / 6.1km Aster Park offers a big, bird’s eye view of Two Medicine Lake from the south. Starting out in the trees, you will soon pass several meadows and a pond. Once you have taken the cutoff to Aster Park Overlook in approximately 0.3 miles, you will meet up with…

  • Avalanche Trail

    Avalanche Trail

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    Jake Bramante

    Avalanche Trail – 6.2mi / 9.9km The Avalanche Trail (not to be confused with the more popular Avalanche Lake Trail) is a lesser traveled trail that parallels Going-to-the-Sun Road from Lake McDonald to the Avalanche Creek Campground. It is a fairly level trail that provides a shaded walk through tall cedar and hemlock trees. Feeder streams…