Views of craggy peaks, tall stands of pine, and cool grey colored glacier moraine line the trail along a beautiful stream in the Bitterroot Wilderness Area. The plan was to hike 9 miles out to the North Kootenai Lake that feeds this stream but the trail became increasingly overgrown and the day increasingly hot; we turned back after 5 miles.  I would recommend the hike but be ready for a rock strewn path most of the way.  It wanders through quite a bit of dead standing timber too.

Check out the trail “road crew”.