Dave & Margie's Yellowstone / Denali National Park Summer: CASCADE LAKE AND ICE LAKE HIKES

Sorry it has taken so long for me to make a post. The Internet is so slow that sometimes I just don’t want to get on. On June 21^st we hike Cascade Lake, which is 4.5 miles thru meadows and forest. It was a great day and the sky was very blue. We though this would be a good hike for us to stretch our legs since this was basically our first hike. We did hike thru some sloppy and wet meadows but enjoyed the hike.

Cascade Lake in the back ground

We always have to climb over something

We are almost back to the trailhead and we took our own picture, that is the trail behind us.

On Friday, June 22^nd we did 4.5 miles again but this time we hiked Ice Lake. In order for us to make a loop we joined up with the Wolf Lake trail. This was a nice hike until we had to cross the river. At the first crossing I walked across a log bridge but had to balance myself to keep from falling. After I made it across Dave decided he would try. He started to go out on the logs to make his way across but got hung up on a tree. He stepped back off the log bridge and decided he would look for another way to get across. He said that if he had fallen on the log bridge he would have been hurt and we were about 2.5 miles into the woods with no one else around. He checked out the water level in the river and decided he would wade across in his hiking boots. He rolled up his pants to keep them dry but his boots and socks were soaking wet. While we rung out his boots and socks I looked in the hiking book to see if anything was said about a second crossing and there was nothing, so we decided there must be some find of foot bridge. They do that sometimes at water crossings.

When we got to the second crossing check out the picture for our footbridge, hahahaha. We had to cross it on our rears. The rest of the hike was uneventful however the last half mile was uphill and on the main road.