HIKING -- Despite the heat wave the moved into the region on Sunday, plenty of snow and ice remained in the high Selkirk Mountains of Idaho.

I joined a group of hikers, drove north of Sandpoint and followed the Upper Pack River Road to the Beehive Lakes trailhead a mile from the end of the road.  (Eight cars were parked at the Harrison Lake TH and our group brought the total to six at Beehive TH).

Within a few hours, we had followed the trail and the short section of cairns over granite slabs just over 3 miles to upper Beehive Lake elev. 6,457 feet and found it frozen with only a little water around the edges showing.

Scrambling up a ridge toward the crest, we looked down on Little Harrison Lake, 6,271 feet elevation (see Harrison Peak in the top right background of the photo above). It, too, was still iced over.

 But the trail into Beehive was snow-free and scrambling was good on the granite slabs and ridges.

The snow is going to go fast in this hot weather, though.  We were able to easily cross Beehive Creek over some cut branches on the way up. But on the way down that creek had swelled from snowmelt and everyone got his feet wet as the water poured over the makeshift woody debris bridge.

Other observations:

• Excellent conditions for glissading.
• Moose on the trail.
• No mosquitoes at Beehive, yet.

Other reports:

• See Out & About field reports.
• See Selkirks trail conditions update.