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Amazing thank you for sharing it wish there was more information available not only for this wonderful and fragile situation but for others like it i understand how important it is to conserve these historical sites but history and nature should be for everyone not just the wealthy or the select few

Nice, thanks for the intel! I have my first visit here scheduled soon 🙌

Really lovely film, what an amazing place!

Amazing

Awesome video

There are many Bald Buttes. Sort of like Blue Lake or Salmon River or Main Street.

Three minutes of scenic backpacking bliss. Beautiful views.

A beautiful job capturing the grandeur of the trail in such a concise video. So many take-your-breath-away views.

When you turned off the PCT onto the Elk Lake Trail, which skirts the south side of Bear Lake, there would have been a nearly immediate left turn down a steep trail that would have taken you to Acker Lake. This is the Old Cascade Crest Trail, which predated the PCT. The berries at 5:30 appear to be bog bilberries. Did they taste like apples? They are delicious, especially when warmed in oatmeal. Lemei is pronounced in three syllables, as Lem-ee-eye. I and a friend happened to be fishing at Goose Lake that Saturday when you filmed this video. We saw red tape, blocking off the side roads on our way up, but didn't know what was going on. Everyone else at the lake suddenly left, and we fished for a couple hours in the smoky gloom, which we just thought was caused by the Eagle Creek Fire, which we had stopped to view from the Cascades village next to Bonneville Dam. We didn't know anything about the East Crater Fire until after we got back into town that evening. The drive home was eerie, with burning fir needles and clusters of burning leaves raining down on the windshield for much of the way down Highway 14. Lake Toke Tie is at the southern foot of East Crater. Most of the trees around the lake burned, but the area is beautiful again now. Last summer, I camped in the small meadow that is the high-water outlet creek for the lake. I only saw two other people visit the lake during my three night stay. The two men were nearing completion of visiting all the named lakes in Indian Heaven. I informed them of a crescent-shaped lake near an abandoned section of the old CCT, south of Tombstone, named Harty Lake, which isn't named on most maps. I had found it the day before. They thanked me and headed south to visit Sebago, then possibly to look for Harty. I have only to visit Race Track Lake and Green Lake to complete my list, and to reach the summits of Sawtooth and Bird Mountain, to finish off the other. I had hoped to visit all of these locations this year, but my mother passed away on June 30th and I will be very busy for the remainder of the summer. Maybe next year.

Love that hike Do the scramble to the Matahpi summit. Easy class 3.

How accessible is the trailhead by vehicle? Are there any water crossings on the road to it?

Im 13 years old and I love this camping place! I go with my family 2-1 times a summer. Otherwise I go to ochocos. I recomend visiting that also!

Looks like you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend there! I believe you are right, there was an eagles nest close to the lake. Beautiful video. It was nice just hearing the sounds of nature and not someone talking about what they see or are doing. 😊

Thank you Peachy. I was at a burn. Strawberry Mountains. Around 1993. Called the Snow - Fire. I think it burned the Strawberry Lake area. But that was not one of my divisions.

just out of curiosity was it hard to book this place/ did it book up fast? it looks so beautiful

Sasqautch country

Was a great place for our first lookout rental 20+ years ago! Back when you had to go to the ranger station to get an actual key, and we decided to stop and ask if it was available that night - and it was;)

We hiked Siyeh Pass in Sept of 2023. Amazing hike.

Perfect!

Wow that is quite a drive up that road, but looks well worth it. I may have to visit that trail one day for a hike

35+ years of hiking and climbing Glacier. from 1982-2021 (some school years in Missoula) put on well over 5000 trail miles. 100+ peak summits, hundreds of nights camping, dozens of lakes fished, and hundreds and hundreds of miles of spring biking during plowing..... no problems until early 2000's. then it just got progressively worse.....to real bad about 2005 or so, i adjusted for crowds by arriving before sunrise. that worked for a little over 5 years. after 2010, things went crazy. TOO MANY PEOPLE!! then they allowed guns, allowed e-bikes (on close roads during plowing season), and finally instituted the reservation system. the throngs of "newbies" were inconsiderate, rude, arrogant , privileged, assholes. not all of them - but too many of them. all the friendliness that attracted me to the Glacier area in the early 80's was gone.....totally gone. everyone was "on edge". ENOUGH!! i moved the hell away.....and so glad i did. people aren't assholes everywhere. i don't miss the people in NW Montana - not a bit. but i do miss the Park. but new adventures in the Andes with friendly people is a good remedy ECUADOR RULES!!

I Loved this hike. I did this hike with my father back in the late 70's and we were both tired when done. But it was worth it!!!! Glad to see the views again, only wish I still could do hikes this.

_I really enjoyed this backpacking to Packwood Lake adventure, the scenery is absolutely stunning with informative narration. The sense of adventure is so palpable and I felt was like right there with you. Thanks for always sharing your insight, passion and wonderful inspiration with us._

Simply incredible!

Looks like an awesome hike! Count me as a new sub.

Wow beautifully edited video, and the accompanying piano music was perfect! Definitely want to stay there (long as the fighter jets don't go by at night-time?)

Nicely done! I plan on hiking this in a couple months.

I gotta do this 😄☝🏻. Very pretty music and scenery. Nice shots !

Ptarmigans! Love spring in the high country..............blessings, Cheryl

Amazing mountains there!

thanks for posting...great video....what a place

3:03 "NONE SHALL PASS!" 😝

Another Great preview! I’ll be headed that way in September. 👍

So pretty!

no grizley bear

Love those Montana mountains. Thanks for the video!

You are able to capture moments communing with the Animals! Thank you, Ms. Peachy!

Mountain goats! Beautiful hike 😍 Thanks for sharing!

breathtaking! God is Love..Abundance of Love❤

Sled Dawg 😁 - it was worth it!

Beautiful climb and views.........sure look forward to seeing that lupine!

Hanging the pot up in a tree was a good idea. Whoever lost it decades ago might come back looking for it. 😮

WOW

What an amazing video! Your content is top tier ! 🙌🏽🤗

Wonderful view from the top, and once again, I was unsurprised to see you had arrived at another lookout tower :D

You've done it again, Peachy Librarian! Love!

Thank you for the cozy video, what a lovely place.

Awesome

I would guess that anyone alive in 1980 and in the PNW at the time will never forget the day Mt St Helens erupted. I was on the east side of the state and we got the new of the eruption before the ash reached us. I will never forget looking out towards the west and seeing the black cloud on the horizon looming towards us. Can't believe that Spirit Lake still had so many trees in it!

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