Scenery - East Glacier Trail

On Saturday we hiked our longest hike yet with the kids! Andy carried Sydney and I carried Wynn. We hiked up the east side of the glacier to AJ falls and then the lookout about Nugget Falls which I've posted about before and back around/down. The hike was pretty steep with a lot of switchbacks on the way up and tons of stairs on the way down. Its a 3.5 mile loop trail and provides great views of the glacier, Mendenhall Lake, about a dozen waterfalls, and the valley out to the ocean. It was fun to finally get some elevation from hiking a look around. It only took us about 1 hr and 45 minutes, but I think we had just about reached Wynn's limit by the time we were back down, so we'll have to leave the even longer treks for next summer I suppose. Hooray for our newest hike though! 

This is the top of Nugget Falls but the trail was too far back to see the raging torrent shown in the picture below (from last year)...