Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope yours is going well, or maybe it's all done...I'm in charge of turkey breast, whole wheat rolls, pumpkin pies, plus I just made a salad for Kevin because he doesn't like green bean casserole. The turkey breast is in the oven and it's actually starting to smell pretty good. I made the pies and the rolls yesterday thank goodness, so I had some time to watch a little of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I mostly fast-forwarded through it, and certainly had the sound down for the majority of it but now I'm realizing that I forgot to watch the Rockettes. Maybe they'll be on You Tube? Surely...
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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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
Back to the west side of Glacier National Park
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...
Pinnacle of the Grinnell Glacier Trail
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...
Hiking up to Grinnell Glacier!
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,...
Boat rides to the Grinnell Glacier Trail
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,...