St. Mary’s Glacier

St. Mary’s Glacier! 🏔️ Christine and the girls laced up their boots and made the trek up to the glacier on a perfect bluebird fall day.

The trail wound up through the pines and over rocky switchbacks before opening up to the alpine lake, with the rugged peaks and the glacier’s snowfield rising right above the water. The fall colors were putting on a show. 🍂

The girls hopped across the rocks and waded along the shoreline in the crystal-clear water, and there were plenty of smiley selfies with Mom, with the lake glittering below and the colorful hillsides all around. 😎

Then they took on the glacier itself, climbing up the snowfield with their hiking poles and scrambling over the boulders for an even bigger view. ❄️ There’s something about that thin mountain air that makes everyone a little sillier and a lot happier.