Glacier 2019
We left on the Amtrak headed for Glacier National Park on Sept. 10, 2019. It’s an amazing park, and we hiked just a fraction of the many trails they have. It was also quite an adventure to take the train all the way to Montana and back.
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Train trip home
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 interesting...
Heading out – Sunday, Sept. 22nd
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+ miles long. we will never...
Last night in Glacier
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...
Hiking in Two Medicine, plus a BEAR!
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....
Farewell to the Hungry Horse Hideout…
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 ingenious...
Sept. 20th part 2 – Boat Ride on Lake McDonald
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 good. we...
Friday, Sept. 20th, part one
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 tickets...
Hike to Avalanche Lake
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 a...
Trip, Interrupted
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 was lying...
And yet another great hike…
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 small data package...
Anniversary dinner in Apgar Village
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 best...
Another great hike in Glacier…
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. we left...