Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans

We will start our journey back home tomorrow the 2nd of July. We would have loved to spend another month in the park visiting Two Medicine, Many Glacier, St. Mary's and then into Waterton which is the Canadian side of the park. There is so much to see here. This is a huge park with multiple entrances, but home and family calls and that is what is most important now.

Montana, We WILL be back!!!

Driving and more Hiking

The Weeping Wall. This wall goes on for awhile. On the way back down I had my window down taking photos and Bob drove too close (on purpose). I got wet!!

There are so many places where the water crosses the road. The waterfalls are abundant.

The views are so stunning

Mountain Sheep. Can you see 5 off them?

Mountain Goats. They are close to Logan Pass.

Mountain Goats. Isn't the baby so cute!

Apgar Lookout.

We hiked 1810 feet up in 3.55 miles to a beautiful lookout.

We started our day with a plan of taking the shuttle to Logan Pass via The Going To The Sun Hwy. The shuttles started today. However when we arrived at the transportation center, we were told that it would be another 40 minutes or so to catch the correct bus. We could take the big bus part of the way and then swith to the smaller bus to Logan Pass. Only the smaller busses can fit on the upper part of the Hwy. Only 12-14 people can fit on the small busses and they only fill them half way so that others have the chance of getting on the bus at the other stops. We did the math and could see that it may take us all day to catch the connecting shuttle as everyone there wanted to go to Logan Pass. Logan Pass runs into the Continental Divide at 6646 ft. altitiude.

We jumped back in the truck to drive it ourselves. Our other concern was in getting a parking place at Logan Pass. We had heard that if you arrive at noon, there is an hour wait for a parking place. We arrived at Logan pass 1.5 hours later and had no problem finding a place to park. There were 2 stops for road construction along the way where half the road had washed out. It is a big 'ol scary drop off on one side of the road and workers were working on it. SCARY!!

Logan Pass was under snow and the hike we wanted to do was under snow so we decided to do another hike called the loop. We were looking for an easy day today, but what the hell. Life if short, do the long hikes, right? isn't that how the saying goes?

We started on the Loop hike and got 1/4 mile down the road (still lovin the GPS) when the rain started. Where did it come from? Our hike turned into a jog back to the truck.

We drove down and ended up hiking to the Apgar Lookout which was another beautiful hike. We had magnificent views down into West Glacier and all the way to the end of McDonald Lake.

Hiking Sperry Trail to Snyder Lake June 30th

On Wednesday we did a great hike to Snyder Lake. The trail was 4.4 miles up to the Lake with an ascent of 2100 feet. It was just beautiful. There is water EVERYWHERE!! There are waterfalls around EVERY corner. It is unbelievable!

Here we are in the National Park and we passed a total of 21 people the entire time and 4 of them were trail workers. We saw very large piles of Bear scat but no bears.

Bike Ride June 29th

There is little bike riding allowed in the park. There is one trail which is only a couple miles in Apgar Village or the other option is to ride on the Going To The Sun Hwy. However on the Hwy. you cannot ride on the bulk of the road between 11am-4pm. The road is seriously narrow and busy.

We went outside of the park to ride which worked out pretty well. We were on a dirt road and there was a little more traffic than we had planned on.

The Other Camp

This camp is across the street from ours. I have a feeling that this guy is staying longer than us. Well either that or he has tent camping totally figured out.