Oxbow Trail

We decided to get one more hike in before the afternoon thundershowers today in Glacier National Park. We did the short 1 mile round trip trail to an Oxbow in the Lower McDonald Creek. Lovely views of Lower McDonald Creek seen along this forested trail.

This view of Lower McDonald Creek was taken from the bridge over the creek on the road near where we parked

some of the wildflowers we saw along this trail today

Johns Lake Loop

We drove to the Upper McDonald Creek Trailhead in Glacier National Park to hike the Johns Lake Loop clockwise (2 miles/200 ft gain)

This is a hike in the forest on a well maintained trail, we saw some fresh bear scat, but no bears.

About 1/2 mie up the trail we saw McDonald Falls

Mountain view seen across Upper McDonald Creek

View of cascade on Upper McDonald Creek from the footbridge over the creek

View looking downstream from the bridge over the creek

Views at Johns Lake on the other side of the loop trail

The last part of our loop was walking along the side of the road to where we began, great views here looking downstream where Upper McDonald Creek enters McDonald Lake

looking upstream at Upper McDonald Creek

view on the bridge looking south to these gorgeous peaks

some of the wildflowers we saw along the trail this morning

Avalanche Lake

We drove to the Trail of the Cedars Trailhead in Glacier National Park this morning to hike the Trail of the Cedars Loop with the Avalanche Lake Trail (5 miles/700 ft overall gain). Beautiful trail with gorgeous views at the lake.

We started up the Trail of Cedars, view of a distant peak while crossing Avalanche Creek at the beginning of our hike

Beautiful forest with rock formations along the Trail of the Cedars

Gorgeous gorge of Avalanche Creek just before the junction of the Avalanche Lake Trail

Views of Avalanche Creek in the rocky gorge near the beginning of the Avalanche Lake Trail

Peak seen about midway up the forested trail

Views at Avalanche Lake

A stellar jay and a deer seen near the lake

Some views seen along the other side of the Trail of the Cedars when we retuned from Avalanche Lake

View of a peak seen through the trees

a couple of the wildflowers we saw along the trail