Disappointment

I think I had mentioned that the weather wasn't all that cooperative with us at Glacier last weekend. While we started heading over Going-to-the-Sun Road the clouds started hanging over all of the mountains. When we had almost made it to the top, at Logan Pass, when we noticed a cloud rushing up the side of the mountain below us towards the road. I have video of it and haven't seen it yet but right as we got to the spot the cloud/fog was heading for it hit the road and we were immersed.

When we got to the top it was completely white out and quite cold. We both put on down jackets just to walk around. There is a visitor center at the top and a few hikes that start out near there.

One hike, the Highline Trail, we had been told about was a 12 mile hike (one way) that started off near the top and basically hiked along the continental divide and gave awesome views of mountains on all sides. The story with the 12 miles is that you hike it from the top and then you come out 12 miles back down on the road and have to either pay for a shuttle or hitchhike back to the top. We had decided that we weren't energetic enough and wouldn't have had enough to do that hike anyway so we had planned on doing another hike.

The other hike was to Hidden Lake and was 1.5 miles one way, 3 mile round trip to an alpine lake and what I'm sure were beautiful views of surrounding mountains. We were going to do that hike but when we got to the top we knew the hike would be cold, devoid of any views and quite possibly wet, so we skipped that one. I guess that some of the best views are when you're up on the pass and we didn't get to see any.

We were disappointed but that's the way things go with weather in the mountains, you never know what's going to happen.