Two Medicine lake from the Glacier national park boundary

Good morning. It is March 23rd, 2026. We're in the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park. They have the road closed at the park boundary, making it about a five-mile walk up to Two Medicine Lake, which is what we're going to try to do today in Glacier National Park, Montana. At the time of this hike, the Two Medicine Road is still closed at the park boundary for winter. We decided to try to make our way up the road to Two Medicine Lake. The road was mostly dry to Running Eagle Falls, and we saw a couple of moose along the way. We did encounter snow beginning at Running Eagle Falls, and it actually got rather deep, as indicated on the map, where we had to do a little bit of postholing. However, we were able to make it to the lake without snowshoes and had excellent views of Two Medicine Lake and the surrounding peaks on a fantastic day in March. Just had a moose cross in front of us, but didn't get the camera out in time. But we had some views of Scenic Point over here, Mount Henry, see Cinnapaw over towards Two Medicine Lake. All months of the year. Pavement has given way to snow-covered roads. This is about our third set of wolf tracks that we've seen. Plenty of moose and wolf tracks. Haven't seen any bear tracks yet, which, frankly, is okay with me. Had a little of the high part before you drop down to the lake. We were postholing a little bit. Strategically, we left our snowshoes in the vehicle, and we made it okay. I did put my Yak tracks on. Kimberly has made it so far without hers. But the wind forecast has been accurate so far. We are arriving at Two Medicine Lake. Again, it was about five miles from where they have the road closed. Starts out at where Bear Road. You walk in tennis shoes, then we switch to Yak tracks. Then we were postholing for a little while over the pass, but then once you kind of hit the downslope to the lake, it clears out nicely and you don't need any more traction or snowshoes. This is at least on March 23rd of 2026. Excellent views of Two Medicine Lake. This is where we're having lunch today. This is the bench we're sitting on. This over here is Rising Wolf Mountain off to your right. Over here, if you hike this way, that takes you up to Dawson Pass. You can do the Dawson-Pittamockin Loop. Takes you up to the Continental Divide. Mount Henry is over there. In this valley here, if you keep going this way, that's Upper Two Medicine Lake. It's over that way as well as Lone Walker Mountain. This is Cinnapaw. This is obviously Two Medicine Lake. Over here, this is Painted Teepee Peak. Cobalt Lake is back there. Chief Lodgepole Peak is back in there as well. A lot of great hikes from this one area in Two Medicine. We finished our lunch at Two Medicine, and now we're going to head on back to the vehicle. We've got about five miles. There's about a mile and a half, two mile stretch in the middle with significant snow. A little post-hulling. Hopefully, we can make it back all right. In the wintertime, they board up the general store. Some bears don't fit in. They do have some picnic tables where you can sit. Kind of a neat view. Coming up on the part where it gets pretty deep and we post-hull a little bit on the way in. The only other really set of tracks we saw turned around at this point, but we made it through without losing any shoes or yak tracks. Oh, God. When we get spring break in Montana, this tends to be the kind of thing we do. We are now approaching the initial road closure on Two Medicine Road. The hike ended up being about 10 miles out and back, five miles in, five miles out. Only one section had significant snow where we post-hulled for a while. Otherwise, we did it with just trail shoes. I threw my yak tracks on for a little bit. Kim didn't. She made it without it. As of March 23rd, 2026, you can get into Two Medicine Lake. We had a day that wasn't too windy, which is fantastic. Here's the closure.