Escaping The Nutshell

After a night of stargazing at the Moraine Park Campground, we started at the Bear Lake parking lot and hiked down to the Glacier Gorge Trail then up to The Loch, scrambled up the rock near Timberline Falls, and stopped at Lake of Glass thinking it was Sky Pond, before turning around.

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A hike from the Button Rock Preserve parking area to the Coffintop Mountain, and Little Coffintop Mountain summit on May 31, 2026.

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A hike from the Brainard Lake Winter Parking Area to Mitchell Lake on Memorial Day (May 25, 2026). We took the Waldrop Trail there and the road back.

As the video shows there was plenty of snow on this hike. Elevation difference from the Brainard Lake Winter Parking Area to Mitchell Lake was 352 feet.

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We started at the Sandbeach Lake Trailhead at the entrance to Wild Basin on May 13, 2026. There was snow on the trail, but not much of a hindrance with hiking boots. But above Sandbeach Lake it got really deep. Distance is about 4.5 miles one way. Elevation change from trailhead (8583 ft, 2618 m) to our perch above Sandbeach Lake (10,600 ft, 3233 m) is 2,017 ft (615 m).

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