Late September, and the weather is still holding, so after stretching our legs yesterday along a 5 mile stretch of the Continental Divide just outside Butte, we drove up to Storm Lake.
The weather was cold (0 Celsius) but clear as we started from the Lake. As we got underway we saw a Great Northern Diver in flight for the first time--a good omen.
Even better, the larches were in peak Fall color. It was almost 3 years ago that we traveled to Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies to see them--how nice to now have them in our back yard.
And it's a BIG back yard. Luckily the trail was in brilliant shape and the weather held.
As we reached the pass just at the tree line, we started to run into some snow, but we forged on. . .
. . . and were rewarded with a beautiful u-shaped glacial valley . . .
. . . and yet more snow as the landscape turned to alpine tundra.
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