Our Casita Adventure From Tucson To Alaska

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Glacier National Park






Driving up through Northwest Montana was beautiful. Rolling hills, cattle, horsing, and lots of water. We came to West Glacier National Park and were awestruck. High Rocky Mts with snow peaks, clear Lake McDonald, long and narrow with thick conifer forests on both sides. This is a lovely park, not as busy as Yellowstone, more beautiful, and less commercial. We had 2 sunny warm days there. There are bike paths all over the park, so we road 12 miles and with hills and elevation that felt like a lot to both of us We also took a beautiful hike through some snow with shorts on!! And numerous waterfalls and raging rivers with all this snow melt.
We have been lucky so far, arriving at each northern park at about the same time they open. Tonight we are at East Glacier, St Mary’s lake, also beautiful but quite different. More Aspen trees, less pine, more open, but snow peaked Mts all around. The road through Glacier is closed, so we drove around and it was a nice ride mostly following another raging river. It’s so nice to be near water, even though going in it is out of the question. We will be in Canada tomorrow.
If anyone has Cassie Evans ph number in Calgary, please send it, she hasn’t answered my email yet.

1 comment:

Jeannie said...

Hi Gayle and Joe, I'm having fun reading about your trip and seeing the pictures. Who needs the travel channel? Are you sure you're headig the the right direction? It looks like you're desperately seeking snow!!(laughing!) We're just getting rid of ours here. The Casita looks cozy and I love the quilt. So far I can identify all the wildlife. Have fun. Jeannie