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| Starting in the Kootenay Valley, the trail to Stanley Glacier begins climbing through lush forest |
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| Starting nice and early, there is lots of mist and cloud at this altitude. |
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| Much of the area burned after a lightning strike years ago, the regrowth is very interesting to see. |
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| At the top of the trail there is an awesome view of the Glacier and Mountain peaks |
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| There are un-maintained trails that continue up the loose avalanche scree to a hanging valley. This is the view looking back over the area I hiked up. |
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| Inside the Hanging Valley, stopped for lunch! |
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| Black Bear! |
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| And then a Grizzly appeared. The bears a drawn to highways and pathways at this time of year to feast on berries that grow in the full sun. This leads to more frequent human-bear encounters. |
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| This one had zero interest in the humans less than 15 feet away. |
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| ...They didn't eat me. |
... nice story Tilo! Some of the pictures are like a Fairytale..
ReplyDelete.Where was the Black Bear ? ...you weren't supposed to be hiking alone!!!