Ptarmigan Lake 2007


West, Swiftcurrent Pass	Ptarmigan Lake	Ptarmigan Lake looking towards Ptarmigan Pass trail	Ptarmigan Lake


Ptarmigan Lake still Partially Frozen Over	Cracks in the Ice on Ptarmigan Lake	Ptarmigan Lake with Mount Wilbur beyond	Ptarmigan Lake with the Mountains of Many Glacier beyond


Mount Gould, Grinnell Mountain and Mount Wilbur	North Face of Mount Wilbur

Ptarmigan Falls Panorama

Trail Stats

Iceberg Lake / Ptarmigan Trailhead

Climbs 2300' in 2.5 miles

Description

This is a beautiful hike. You hike the trail than it splits. You can either go to Iceberg lake or Ptarmigan Tunnel. Now it's exactly what it sounds like, a tunnel drilled straight through the rock so the casual hiker doesn't have to bust out the ropes, pitons and chocks. Going through Ptarmigan Tunnel one should hike a bit of the way to Elizabeth Lake till you can see Helen Lake it's not much further but worth it.