Gem Lake

We are normally rafting on the Lower Salmon river over the Labor Day weekend.  But we had a little change of plans this year and were able to do some fun things closer to home.  Today we packed lunch and headed toward the Cabinet Mountains to hike to Gem Lake.

 

It was a fun and beautiful hike.  But the best part is that the trail was lined from top to bottom with huckleberries. 

 

They were ripe and ready to be picked. We grazed going up and did some serious picking coming down.  We talked about all of the good things we could do with the berries we collected and decided on some homemade huckleberry ice cream.  Yum!