However, after we walked about 50 yards, the short sprinkle ended, the clouds broke up, and we could see blue skies in the direction of Hidden Lake. She couldn't recall any other time I called off a hike for any reason. Actually, I decided that we should turn around, and we headed back toward the Visitors Center. Linda helped Bridget get the hang of her new hiking poles, but the slick snow made walking tougher on all of us.Īnd the weather didn't look good. I thought that there was going to be only a small patch of snow on this hike, but there was a whole snow field that we had to cross, and the clouds were getting darker.Īnother weasel popped its head up through a hole in the snow. This trail has about a 500 foot elevation gain and, as we climbed, we spotted two groups of Bighorn Sheep. Little did we know they would be common on this hike. That was the first time we had seen one of these voracious little critters up close.

Not far onto the boardwalk, a Long-tailed Weasel casually trotted by holding a rodent at least half its size. The 8760 foot Clements Mountain is the focal point of the first part of the hike which starts out paved and then transitions into a boardwalk. We had some clouds moving in, but we headed out anyway. The plan was to do the very popular, three-mile-round-trip, Hidden Lake Overlook hike that starts behind the Visitors Center at Logan Pass where we met up. We drove the 18 miles in on the Going-To-The-Sun Road, and met our friends, John & Bridget, who drove in from the west side of the park. We were staying outside of Glacier National Park in the town of St.

Hidden lake trail glacier