It is weekend and this park is like Canada’s Grand Canyon. It is packed. Trailhead parking is all full and spilling onto the streets. The campgrounds are full. There are people just about everywhere. We opted for a little longer wilderness-edge hike so the throngs thinned out a little the further we got…still a busier trail then we prefer.

We saw all the highlights at around 5000 to 7400 feet;
Mirror Lake, Lake Agnus (and the tea house there), big beehive, and the plain of six glaciers (that teahouse too).  We heard several avalanches off the glaciers that circles us and even got to see one actually falling…far away of course.

We enjoyed the hike and made it home in one piece.  Can’t say the same for everyone else though.  One gal was rescued by horseback after she sprained an ankle on the trail.
A group of climbers were heli-lifted out after some sort of highaltitude mishap.  We saw the copter make at least four trips to the glacier just above our trail to bring the climbers
out.