Glacier

The past two days have been spent in Glacier National Park. As the picture indicates, we had kind of a "rough break". We arrived with a storm that dumped some snow on the mountains. On Friday, we attempted to drive the "Gone to the Sun Road", but were shut down in the alpine regions. The scenery was still amazing and beautiful--we just couldn't really see too much of it. On Saturday we were able to complete the whole journey (btw, Dad, you probably don't ever want to drive this road!). It was stunning, but again, very foggy and visibility was somewhat limited. I must confess the cold, rainy weather "dampened" (pun intended) my spirits somewhat. Glacier is really a park that warrants hiking and backpacking. The weather discouraged me from really wanting to aggressively pursue this path.

After the Gone to the Sun road, we went over to the Many Glaciers section of the park. The purpose of this venture was to try to see some actual glaciers. Well, once again, the fog thwarted this plan, and we didn't think an 11 mile hike leaving the dog in the car sounded like much fun. So instead we settled for a visit to the Many Glacier Lodge--an enormous "swiss chalet" style lodge and looked at pictures of glaciers then and now. Wow pretty dramatic! We were also pleased to once again see a mama bear and two cubs along the road to the hotel. Apparently, another tourist told Isaac he had seen a bull moose at the same location the previous day--we were not so lucky. Oh well.

So we vowed to come back to Glacier another time without the dog during a warmer season. It is certainly a gorgeous place.

After all this rain, we decided to splurge for one night and get a hotel room. We came to Whitefish, Montana, ate at the brewery, and are now enjoying the luxury of sitting up in bed!

Tomorrow we will travel to the west and head for the Seattle area. Hopefully, we will find some distractions along the way.