Reeds Lakes Trek #1 - The Big Scout

Surveying Reed’s Lakes -this first hike Jeff and I took was to scout the area to the Bomber Glacier. It was a pretty nice day, not too hot with intermittent mist to cool you just enough to make the trip worth while. The first part of the trail is light walking, until you reach that part which is made up of rocks to twist your ankles – this is for a short distance and long enough to take the fun out it.

The trail head opens again to well traveled ground, a couple of bridges to traverse, an old cabin to view – lots of mud on the trail so you needed to be prepared to get dirty. From the cabin it’s a hike up, up, and away! I didn’t enjoy this – my heart loved it and I lost 2 pounds. Once you reach this first summit you begin the climb down into the boulders - a very old rock slide that covers the river which is fed from the lakes.

The boulders can be challenging when wet – we covered about ¾ mile on and in-between boulders. Marmots were whistling, and later the Beavers came out to greet us and the evening cover. We stopped at the falls between Upper and Lower Reeds for lunch.



After lunch we scouted and climbed an area we thought might lead us to the glacier – after 200 feet we could see where we needed to go and that was back down and up, up to the Upper lake. The directions we found on line were not very clear making it difficult to know if Lower Reeds was actually Upper Reeds; further, the trail was not well traveled at the time so we lost it until we climbed above it.

Once we reached Upper we needed to scout a path to the glacier – we met a couple on the trail who had a GPS, they pointed where they thought the glacier path should lead. It was 8PM and 8:30 before we finally headed down. We hit the parking lot at 11:00 and still had 20 minutes before our cell phones worked to call the kids…our trip was a success.