1/15/2024 0 Comments Iceberg lake trail mt![]() ![]() I found Summer to be particularly good for hiking. The weather is good, snowpack is lower, and roads open in the late spring. Late Spring to Early Fall is the best time to hike to Iceberg Lake. It is also quite popular to do the Iceberg Lake Trail in combination with the Ptarmigan Tunnel Trail as they both share the same first 2.8 miles (5.6 miles round trip), which makes it easier if you plan to do both. The trail is very popular and the lake can get pretty crowded during summer and at peak times. The trail terminates at the lake so there really isn’t much to do to extend the trail. The hike is about 4.6ish miles each way from the trailhead to and from the lake. The Iceberg Lake is a beautiful glacial lake in the many glaciers area of Glacier National Park. We learned there was a momma grizzly and two cubs on the ridge, about 300 yards away, and I put my telephoto lens to work.Distance: 9.3 miles | Type: Out & Back | Elev. We had seen such a gathering on our way to meet Ed in the morning, but not wanting to be late, I hadn’t stopped then. Ed wasn’t planning to do other hikes, and we bid farewell, though I had learned that he was going to be on my flight from Kalispell to Chicago on Wednesday.ģ:32 p.m.: Julie and I drove east on Many Glacier Road, encountering a “bear jam,” a group of cars stopped with people standing around and pointing cameras and binoculars up the adjacent ridge. We walked back to Swiftcurrent Motor Inn, where Julie and Ed bought something to drink, while I opted for ice cream. I had put some moleskin on my blistered foot before beginning the hike, and that helped a lot. Covering 4.9 miles in a little more than an hour and a half is very impressive (though that was going downhill). Ed claimed not to hike very much, but he led us out and both Julie and I thought that he had been moving at a very fast pace. ![]() Upon reaching the east side of the park, we turned north onto slow, winding Montana Highway 49.Ĩ:30 a.m.: This was one pullout on Highway 49, looking west toward Lower Two Medicine Lake and a range of mountains in the park, including Mount Henry, Appistoki Peak, and Medicine Mountain:Ģ:33 p.m.: We returned to the trailhead, having completed the 9.8 mile hike. While it was a longer route, the speed limit was higher. ![]() Instead of taking Going-to-the-Sun Road, we took U.S. I decided that I didn’t have to see a glacier up-close. However, Julie had wanted to hike to Iceberg Lake in the Many Glacier area, and I agreed we would do that on Sunday. Īnother option to see a glacier had been to hike to Grinnell Glacier from the east side of the park, as it was accessible from Many Glacier hotel and/or the boat shuttle that Julie had taken on Saturday. But the Highline Trail was a long hike to start with, and as we had approached the turnoff to the overlook, neither Julie nor I had especially been interested in adding the extra distance or elevation. One option had been an optional detour from the Highline Trail (our previous hike) to an overlook of Grinnell Glacier. Sunday: When planning the vacation and listing the hikes we had been interested in, I had hoped to get a good view of a glacier. She invited Ed to join us for our planned Sunday hike. Attorneys seem to gravitate together, and on the boat ride she had found one traveling alone: Ed Lee, an Intellectual Property professor from Chicago. From there, she walked about 0.8 miles across relatively flat terrain to Grinnell Lake. and reported on her adventures in the east part of the park.įrom Many Glacier Hotel, she had ridden a boat across Swiftcurrent Lake, walked 1/4 mile across a little strip of land to Lake Josephine, and then caught another boat to take her across that lake. Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage, the story of Meriwether Lewis and the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and I’m slowly making my way through it.) Julie returned around 7:00 p.m. With nowhere to go, I slept and/or rested until later, finally got up, said my prayers, limped around Loop A of the campground a couple of times while wearing sandals instead of boots, ate lunch, limped the short distance to the Lake McDonald boat ramp, rested a bit, and read some of a book that I had purchased on Thursday afternoon at the visitor’s center in Apgar Village. Julie decided to wake early and travel to explore the Many Glacier area on the east side of the park, even though we were planning to go there together on Sunday to hike to Iceberg Lake. on Saturday, so Julie knew that she was on her own as far as traveling and sightseeing. Saturday: This was my Sabbath, from about 8:30 p.m. ![]()
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