Nov 12, 2019 | Glacier 2019
The train arrived at the station right on time on Sunday morning, Sept. 22nd, and left promptly at 9:50. Here’s a picture of the river as we left the station. I didn’t take any more pictures most of the trip home. It was a fine trip, and we met some more...
Nov 6, 2019 | Glacier 2019
First, as I mentioned, we’d been given the terrific map which detailed all 88 “day hikes” in Glacier – all 734 miles of trails. We hiked on about eleven of them, which isn’t bad for our first trip. However, ten of the 88 day hikes are 15+...
Nov 4, 2019 | Glacier 2019
After leaving the park (and our exciting bear sighting!) we drove down the road to the tiny town of East Glacier. I had to take a picture of this motel because i grew up only two blocks from the Sears department store, so Sears always has a place in my heart. I...
Nov 3, 2019 | Glacier 2019
After packing up our stuff and heading over to East Glacier, we went into the Two Medicine entrance of the park and had a little snack lunch in our car. it was chilly and windy. We hiked on the Running Eagle Falls nature trail and quickly arrived at the falls....
Nov 1, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Saturday morning, Sept. 21st, It took us a while to load up all our stuff. And i had to run around and take some last photos of some of the cute outside stuff…can you spot the metal bicycle to the left of the aspen tree? I wish i’d taken a picture of the...
Oct 31, 2019 | Glacier 2019
It was a short drive down the road from where we’d been hiking on the Johns Loop Trail over to the Lake McDonald Lodge. The parking lot was kind of full and we had to park a little far away but since we hadn’t hiked very long earlier in the day it was all...
Oct 30, 2019 | Glacier 2019
This was our last day on the West side of Glacier. As we drove down our street, there was the white bunny to greet us. We decided to try the Johns Lake Trail. I really wanted to go on the boat ride from McDonald Lodge in the afternoon, and we’d bought online...
Oct 28, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Whew, I felt pretty good on Thursday , and we decided to hike to Avalanche Lake. It was Thursday Sept. 19th, and first we stopped off at the West entrance to get our pictures taken. We’d seen people stopped here most times we entered the park and decided now was...
Oct 26, 2019 | Glacier 2019
We’d gone on an eight-mile hike on Tuesday, had a nice evening…but when i woke up on Wednesday morning, sept. 18th, something was terribly wrong. I was lying on my side and felt dizzy and weird. when i rolled over to my back, still dizzy, still weird. I...
Oct 24, 2019 | Glacier 2019
On Tuesday, Sept. 17th we decided to hike along the shore of Lake McDonald. It’s a total of seven miles one way so we decided we’d hike as far as we felt like. we didn’t leave our place til midday, though, because i suddenly got worried about our...
Oct 22, 2019 | Anniversary!, Glacier 2019
After our great hike up Apgar Lookout Trail on Mon. Sept. 16th we headed back to Apgar Village. It’s the largest village in Glacier, but all it consists of is a couple of gift shops a couple of hotels, and a restaurant. The first place we stopped in Apgar is the...
Oct 21, 2019 | Anniversary!, Glacier 2019
Monday, Sept. 16th, our 13th anniversary! We celebrated by going on a lovely hike, up to Apgar Lookout. it’s funny that our hike two days before had been so chilly and windy. today, we fairly quickly zipped off our zipoff pants and comfortably hiked in shorts....
Oct 19, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Sunday morning, September 15th, we headed back to the west side of the park. My plan had been to take the Going-to-the-Sun road back across, stopping at Logan Pass to go on one of the must-see hikes, and maybe stop a few other places. but on saturday night Kevin...
Oct 17, 2019 | Glacier 2019
whew, we saw the plaque which proclaimed we’d arrived at the glacier, but we really hadn’t and had to hike another half hour. We finally got to our end point around one thirty. We had expected it to be bigger, and i was also always under the impression...
Oct 15, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Before our trip I was looking around on tripadvisor forums and “grinnell Glacier” kept popping up and I suddenly felt it was important that we try the hike up to the Glacier. I posted a question, asking if the hike would be too difficult for two...
Oct 9, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Saturday, Sept. 14th we got up early and headed to the East entrance of Glacier. I had booked a 9:00 reservation on the boats which would take us from Many Glacier Hotel, over the Swiftcurrent Lake, up a little path, and then over Lake Josephine, and at the end of...
Oct 8, 2019 | Glacier 2019
On Fri. Sept. 13th we headed away from Logan Pass and almost immediately stopped at a place called Lunch Creek. So named because it’s a good place for a picnic. if it’s not raining, that is. It was beautiful anyway. first, here’s a quick video of...
Oct 7, 2019 | Glacier 2019
On Friday morning, Sept. 13th (friday the 13th and nothing horrible happened!), we packed up all our stuff and left the charming Chalet Motel in Whitefish. it was a half-hour drive to West Glacier, where we stopped at the historic Belton Train Station and perused the...
Oct 6, 2019 | Glacier 2019
…we didn’t get to Glacier Park that day, but it was all part of my plan. It was Thursday, Sept. 12th, and we’d had a restful sleep at the charming little Chalet Motel in Whitefish. Like i wrote previously it’s an old motel, maybe the oldest...
Oct 5, 2019 | Glacier 2019
After a good night’s sleep, we spent all of Wednesday on the train to Glacier. They let us off the train sometimes, mostly so the smokers could light up. it was nice to get out in Shelby Montana, with about three hours to go before reaching our destination....
Oct 4, 2019 | Glacier 2019
I got back from my trip to Denver for my friend Christine’s funeral on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 7th. Three days later, Tuesday Sept. 10th, Kevin and I got on the train in Springfield bound for Glacier. so i had two days to pack. It was a crazy couple of...
