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Glacier National Park is known as a "hiker's paradise," but you'd better be a fit hiker. There are plenty of backcountry campsites for long-distance treks, but the closest campsites are generally five or many more miles from the trailhead, plus a few thousand feet up. This makes it difficult to break day hikes into shorter multi-day backpack trips.
For our first hike, we settled on Cobalt Lake, which leaves from the south side of Two Medicine Lake in the southeast corner of the park. It's a moderate climb of 1400 feet over 5.46 miles, but almost all of the elevation gain comes in the last two miles.
We were on the trail at 8:30 a.m. and back at the truck by 3:20 p.m. Here's some of what we saw along the way, ordered as we saw it.
New birds sighted included two
Pacific wrens and two
lazuli buntings.
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Sinopah Mountain from the Two Medicine Lake parking lot; we walked up the ravine on the left side of this photo, just right to the of the lamp post.
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Early and easy water crossing, thanks to great trail engineering and construction
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| Lovely Aster Falls |
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| Steady Rex! |
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Signposting; yes, we carry bear spray
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Rockwell Falls
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On our way up; Two Medicine Lake as seen from above
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| Not far now |
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Almost there
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Our destination: Cobalt Lake
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| Headed back down |
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| Mid-afternoon at Two Medicine Lake |
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