June 11, Saturday Isaak Walton Inn to Marion Lake and back

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Today we had three fancy meals at the Inn with very good food.   Our Whitefish Warm Showers host  recommended the hike to Marion Lake so this 8-mile round trip hike  with about 2000 feet of climb was our activity for the day.  The last 20% had increasing amounts of snow sometimes as  thick as 4 feet. The lake was three quarters covered by ice and snow. As we walked up the mountain we saw many plants that were emerging from being snow covered just very recently, white and purple trillium, spring beauties and many other plants we could not identify. We found it a bit challenging but very pleasant hike. It drizzled or rained a good share of the time so we got quite wet and a bit chilled at the higher elevations. And then at other times the sun would come out and  warm us up.  We were amazed at all the beautiful mushrooms of different varieties as well as the tallest morel Kay had  ever seen which she was very tempted to pick but she had nowhere to cook it. We even saw some probable bear tracks in one patch of snow today.  We did not see the bear but we had bear spray and whistle ready. After our walk, and shower and sauna to warm up, we viewed the online worship service from last week from our home church.   

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