Lower Aero Lake via Lady of the Lake Trail
5.2 mi
Distance
2 hrs 35 min
Time
terrain
1,289 ft
Elev Gain
Overview
This is a moderate one way trail in Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area.
This trail goes by Lady of the Lake and Lower Aero Lake.
Rate this Hike
★★★★★
Stunning views of major peaks, classic alpine lakes -- worth the grunt up "Heartbreak Hill", the headwall up from the Zimmer Creek. One moonlit night by Lower Aero, a Mountain Goat came right up to our tent door to check us out. Another time, trout were leaping out of the stream between Upper and Lower.TAKE CARE on the rock band down to Lower: we had to hike out in the dark to get EMT's up to a guy who compound fractured his leg. He was downclimbing the rock band to the lake, foolishly facing outwards; his pack caught on the rock, sent him tumbling. He leg caught in the bergschrund near the base while his body kept going down the snowfield. It was bloody ugly. We splinted his leg w/ fly rod cases and sleeping pads. He was LifeFlighted next morning to Billings.
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