The next day after leaving Torrey’s Inn in Idaho.

The next day after leaving Torrey’s Inn was quite uneventful. For hours, I drove along the Salmon River. It rained the whole time while driving through northern Idaho. To make matters worse, Montana greeted us with constant torrential down pours. Because of the rain, we stopped short of our goal of reaching Glarcier National Park before night fall.

The next morning we got an early start and reached Glacier National Park before noon. I wasted little time in getting a place to stay before we went to explore the park. The weather forecast had predicted rain for the next couple of days, but this morning it look promising because it was partly cloudy for most of the day. I hiked to this lake call Avalanche Lake. It was a 3 mile strenuous hike up hill through this beautiful dense rain forest of cedar trees. The trail started at the Going-to-the-Sun Road a few miles north of Upper McDonald Falls, and goes along Avalanche Creek until you get to Avalanche Lake. The lake was situated at the base of some very high alpine mountains on all side with long waterfalls everywhere as a result of the melt off of snow. The place was simply spectacular and it made the hard hike well worth the effort.

An hour later, I got back to the car, and by that time it was late and it was raining hard. So, I decided to call it a day, and return back to the place.