Rock Lake Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, Montana

All right we are here at the Rock Lake trailhead. Oh it is the first of October and we are in prime fall conditions. Going up for a couple nights, just happy to be getting out one more time this year. Gonna stop at the mine up here and uh I don't know then move on the lake. Let's go. We were back in the Cabinet Mountains for what would end up being our last trip of the year and the weather was perfect. A highlight of this trip for us was stopping by the Heidelberg mine. Jason comes from a family of miners and he was a miner himself at one time but the special part about this mine was that his uncle actually worked there when the mine was active. We enjoyed our stop at the mine maybe too much. It was getting late in the day now and it was time to push up to the lake. We were running out of light as we made our final climb into the lake. We're getting close. Made it to Rock Lake. Well we've made it here to Rock Lake. We got some intel on the way in about a campsite uh kind of down at the end of the lake on this side. We're going to check it out. We're getting in here right at dark. Coming into the trip we had lofty goals of hiking up St. Paul Pass and maybe even up to Libby Lakes. Getting into the campsite the night before we had a pretty gnarly bushwhack and we weren't feeling like another one to try to get up to the pass. During the day there was a constant wind blowing up the lake and it kept us near the fire all day. Turns out that was good enough for us. Well good morning. It is morning day three. Yeah missing a day in there. Uh we didn't do much. We hung out at camp yesterday and kind of celebrated all day and just got to hang out with each other in this beautiful place. Ah but today it's going home day so uh yeah we're a little slow out of the gate here this morning but we'll be getting the coffee in us and packing up and making the walk out. Should be a great walk. Well we are back on the main trail. That side trail is a little rough but now we're just going to cruise down. We're definitely going to stop at the mine again and then it's time to cruise and finish this off and find a burger. It's pretty cool. Just pulling out from the mine right now. Got the double track back to the truck. On our way out we ran into the crew from Anything Outdoors with Steve, another YouTube channel who does videos in our area. We hike a lot of the same trails. Hopefully we'll run into them again down the road. Even though we are on the home stretch and thinking about burgers I always find myself slowing down not wanting the trip to end. Fall is by far my favorite season and I can't wait to get back.