Day Seven – Two Medicine and Upper Two Medicine Lakes
On Friday we decide to hike in the Two Medicine area. Nina has joined us and Angela and Wendy also join us today. We arrive in mid-morning but did find parking in one of the lots. We start hiking on the trail along the north side of two Medicine Lake. To get there we first hike around Pray Lake.
Pray Lake
Jim and Nina crossing a bridge.
Angela, Wendy & MacKenzie
Wendy and Angela walking through Fireweed.
Two Medicine Lake and Never Laughs Mountain
Angela getting a picture.
Boat Dock at the upper end of Two Medicine Lake
In this area Wendy was leading us. She stopped suddenly saying she thought something had crossed the trail in front of her. This part of the trail had a lot of thimbleberry bushes and other tall vegetation. A couple minutes later a small bear cub climbed a tree about 25 feet off the trail on the lake side. The bear cub went up about the tree about 15 feet, looked around and then backed down the tree. We were concerned that the mother was in the area so we waited a while but did not see or hear any other sign of bear.
Pumpelly Pillar
Twin Falls
Trail to Upper Two Medicine Lake
Upper Two Medicine Lake and Lone Walker Mountain
Food storage box at Upper Two Medicine Lake Campground
We decided to take the boat back across Two Medicine Lake. The first boat filled with people who already had tickets (those who had taken the boat across the lake to this point earlier in the day). The boat captain said he would return for us as soon as he could get back. The Sinopah was back for us in about 30 minutes.
Sinopah
From Two Medicine I headed back to Great Falls for my early morning flight back to Minneapolis. Another Glacier trip was completed.