Rock Lake

Old mining history dots this trail -- a shack here, coiled wire there, and a headframe with water gushing out of it. Miners left us this trail to use, but I could care less about mining relics -- I want to make it to that island. Earlier this summer I saw one of Zack's photos of Rock Lake (one of probably a few dozen 'Rock Lakes' in Montana, so take heart if you are not sure where it is) and while beautiful, what really captured my attention was a peninsula on the south end of the lake -- or was it an island? Some peninsulas are islands in high water, land-attached in low. The land stuck so beguilingly into the lake that for some reason I really super wanted to visit.