It took most of the day Sunday to drive to Glacier park. We arrived around 3:30 and found a campsite at the base of Avalanche Lake. As we were making our way to the campsite we noticed many day hikers setting out for a destination nearby. So, rather than wasting the long evening in camp we inquired as to where everyone was heading. A park ranger told us that Avalanche Lake was a 2 mile hike from our campsite.
We all grabbed our fishing and photo gear and headed up the mountain. It was a very easy hike in at this elevation, it took maybe 35 minutes to get to the bottom of the lake where we could view the entire lake as well as the amphitheater and waterfalls to the far side. We worked our way to the middle of the lake where we found a nice sand bar to fish from. We were the only fisherman at the lake this night. Each of us took turns fishing and we were all able to pull in several small cutthroats. Geoff caught his first ever Yellowstone Cut! While we fished a black bear worked his way up the shore on the far side of the lake and a nice whitetail buck kept emerging on the shore at the headwaters. We finished the evening with a walleye dinner and a nice visit with a Canadian couple next door.
summer school and drove toward Lander. We made it to the Fiddler’s Lake parking lot by 4pm, strapped on our backpacks and headed into the wilderness. It was a 2 hour hike to go nearly 4 miles to our base camp at Tomahawk. The plan was to take day packs the next morning to Fawn and Thumb Lakes for Brookies, Cuts and Goldens.
