So my son needs 6 more summits to have completed all the Waterton Summits, so this trip was planned with that in mind. We booked 2 nights at Lone Lake Campground and had for an objective to tackle all three of Mt. Lineham, Lone Mountain, and Mt. Bauerman. We also convinced another family to come along so we could have the entire lake to ourselves, so it was two families chilling at the lake and it was awesome. The first day we hiked in and arrived at the lake by mid afternoon and just relaxed. I think my pack was about 50lbs. and hiking all day long (almost 15km) in the heat with no shade from the Kenow fire was pretty tough. But the next day we got up and headed over to Mt. Lineham, and boy was it hot and exposed to the sun. Water was scarce along the trail and so we had to conserve which for a guy like me sweating isn't easy. Once we got back we re-hydrated and then tackled Lone Mountain that night with a bunch of the kids for a sunset hike. It was a pretty view, and on the way down I got thinking that we are probably the only people ever to summit both Lineham and Lone is the same day because why else would you do those two mountains on the same day? The reason being is usually Lineham is accessed via Cameron Lake road but since it is closed we had to go this much harder way. The next morning on our way out we dropped our packs at one point and then zipped up Bauerman to finish off the 3 summits. The two previous days the visibility was poor because of the forest fires in B.C. but the wind picked up the last day and we had great views from Bauerman. We then came down and hiked out. 3 days, 3 peaks, and lots of tired people.
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| Smiles at the beginning...relief to be done 3 days later (no photo taken of that moment) |
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| The caterpillars were everywhere and disgusting |
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| Hiking in the burn |
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| This bridge survived the fire although it did get pretty chared |
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| Towards Lone lake the burn ended and the area around the lake is still nice and green and burn free |
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| Dirty feet after hiking through 15 km of soot |
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| Great little campsite at Lone, this is the third time I've camped here and will go back for more |
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| Newly installed bear proof foot containers much handier than the bear poles |
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| One of our tents on one of the 4 tent pads |
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| Sun rising on the 2nd day |
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| Gorgeous still morning on the lake. I think the wind is blocked here because on the 2nd night we could hear the wind but it wasn't affecting our tents at all. |
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| Big herd of Rams on the trail up to Lineham Ridge |
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Lineham Lakes one of the prettiest areas of the park that was saved from the fire
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Another view of Lineham Lakes and falls from Mt. Lineham
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| It was pretty dry in the valley we hiked in that day but a few weeks ago before it got hot it must have been so pretty with all the withered flowers we saw |
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| Sunset from Lone Mountain |
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| Could see Castle and Windsor quite well in the distance |
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| Sunset with a view to the left into the Flathead Valley |
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| Cairn on Lone with the sunset behind |
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| Milky way shot at the lake that night |
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| Fire ban, when we were climbing Lineham the helicopter came and closed down our fire pit. Luckily we got one day of fire before they shut us down. |
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| Heading up Bauerman looking towards Avion Ridge and Glendowan, you can see the burned and non burned area from the Kenow fire |
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| Looking over to Kootenai Brown, Lost and Anderson |
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Looking over to Lone and some of the Glacier Peaks in the background
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| Twin Lakes another area sparred from the Kenow fire |
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| This shirt was white 3 days earlier |
Track into Lone Lake
