Glacier National Park - what can we say? We saw so much, hiked many trails, transversed the Going-To-The-Sun Road 6 times in 5 days, saw many animals, saw field upon field of wildflowers, dipped our toes in the icy cold creeks that flowed down from the glaciers, saw animals that only thought we would see in Alaska, experienced the sadness that within 20 years all the glaciers will be gone (only 20 left of 250), felt the crunch of three thousand people a day visiting Glacier, conquered Glacier National Park. We feel if it wasn't for Donna coming from Cleveland to visit us, we would not have seen or experienced as much as we did. We were out every day by 9am, back about 8pm, viewed the 4 historical lodges within the park and ate at 3 of them (great food!), just had a marvelous time! Thank you Donna for getting us out of our comfort zone and seeing and experiencing more than we would have!
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| Triple Arches of Going-To-The-Sun Road |
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| View across the Sun Road to Glacier and Angel Waterfall |
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| Many Glacier Lodge |
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| Sun Point - Donna hiking to us - notice smoke from wildfires |
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| Sunset from Many Glacier Lodge |
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| Wild Flowers everywhere |
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| Photo from Road into Two Medicine - Two Medicine Lake |
Here are some general pictures of Glacier. The road was not fun - with an oversized truck, was very tight maneuvering for Dave. I would not drive this road, only drove the outside roads to get around the southern end of Glacier or the eastern side. We never saw the west side of Glacier, supposed to be an outdoor's person paradise - fishing, hunting. No glaciers on the west side. We were only 20 miles from Canada's Waterton-Glacier National Park, which this park the world's first international Peace Park, partnering with the US. Just not enough time. We have stuff to do now, Donna flew back to Cleveland today, truck in for tune-up, errands, shopping, cleaning, laundry - will be heading to Great Falls, Montana early next week. Wonderful, wonderful time here.
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