The Lake Trail

On an earlier blog, we did the River Trail. There is another trail called the Lake Trail. The Lake Trail is much longer. Over all we hiked about 10 miles. It was a long day. After reaching the lake, we walked along it for a while until the trail took us away from the lake. The trail lead to an old abandoned road that we walked along for about 45 minutes. It was straight as a arrow and never ending. It was kind of eerie. You could tell that the road had not been in use for quite a while because it had been overtaken by grass and moss and on both sides of the road were alder trees, so it make a sort of tunnel (it is in the background of the picture that has both of us in it). I found myself, ever once in a while, looking behind me to make sure there was no one there. The road lead to a asphalt road which lead the the current road that runs between the Lodge and Gustavus. We walked along the road until a car came along and picked us up and took us back to the Lodge. I am so glad that we got a ride back to the lodge. If we would of had to walk it would have been another 3 or 4 miles. I did not have the energy for it. It's not uncommon to hitchhike back and forth, that's how a lot of the employees get around. 

We saw a couple of fresh bear scat (poo) along the abandoned road but once again we saw no wildlife. We have been here for a little over a month and a half, and have not encounted a bear or a moose. There is a black bear that has been sighted numerous times walking around the lodge, and there is also a moose that has been sighted a couple of times.

The other day we had some employees staying in the campground near the lodge, and the were charged by a moose and had to run behind a tree to get out of the way. Not that I want something like that to happen to us but it would be nice to see something from a safe distance while on land.