Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Return to Buffalo Lakes on hot day


One of the lakes with views into Glacier Park

We ascended a ridge line above the lakes, walking a knife ridge down.

 We weren't looking for too much on our annual return to Buffalo Lakes in the Badger Two Medicine area of the Helena Lewis and Clark National Forest.

We had two west side friends who had never been to this spot in Blackfeet territory immediately west of East Glacier Park along the Lubec Ridge.

We did about 4.5 miles and 1,000 feet on this short hike that took us to the lakes, which have receded considerably during this dry time of summer.

Katie suggested that we get up on the ridge line just south of most southerly lake, and we had a nice ridge walk on a knife ridge.

A highlight of the hike are the views to the north into Glacier National Park.

Surprisingly, there were still considerable wildflowers out, particularly Indian Paintbrush.  We saw moose sign and enjoyed the sight of a large beaver lodge on one of the lakes.

Afterwards we stopped in Browning at the Museum of the Plains Indian which is featuring a Rinold Weiss exhibit.  He was an early 20th Century artist who did remarkable paintings of Blackfeet.  There is an exhibit now in Great Falls of Reiss Blackfeet portraits at the C.M. Russell Museum.


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