Tag: Glacier

We moved to the east side of Glacier on Tuesday.  I thought I had booked our site for 3 days, but realized when they put the check out notice on the window, that I had looked at my excel travel log wrong.  Ohh, we were disappointed! Fish Creek is just beautiful!!  Then when we got to the east side(2 hour drive) to St. Mary’s campground, there was a problem with our campsite. We ended up getting spot that felt like we were in the high desert.  Stark contrast to the other side.  It all worked out, because we were closer to the most breathtaking scenery!

We hiked Hidden Lake Valley Overlook Hike at Logan Pass.  Kids were so excited to hike through SNOW in July!  So weird seeing snow and actually walking through it in some places. This is one of our favorite hikes we have done.  At the top, we were at the Continental Divide.  We saw mountain goats, bighorn sheep and marmots.  We wished we could hike down to the the Hidden Lake, but the fish were spawning and bears were there feeding, so they closed the trail. 

 

 

 

 

 

We headed to lunch at Two Sisters

Cafe in Babb, Montana on the way to Many Glacier(part of Glacier).  We split a piece of huckleberry pie!  Huckleberries are popular here.  There was a dog outside the restaurant that loved me!  Tried to follow me in the restaurant, and we were leaving followed us to the jeep and hopped right in the front seat. Kids laughed so hard!  That’s him at the window when we were getting ready to pull out.

Then we headed to Many Glacier(unfortunately, there used to be 150 glaciers in park, but now only 25.  They say by 2030 there will not be any glaciers left).  The ranger said they classify a glacier by: ice 100 feet thick and 25 yards wide and it moves. We hiked the Swiftcurrent Trail to Lake Josephine.  We were able to see Gem and Salamander Glacier.  Leaving Many Glacier, we spotted a big grizzly bear up on the side of the mountain.  It is so incredible to see animals in their natural habitat.  Headed home for dinner then to the Native American Dance Program.  It was a tad busy that day!  So much to see and so little time!!  

 

We tried to do the Avalanche Lake Hike, but we could not get a parking spot. This place was packed!  So we went down the road to the John Lake Hike, which gave us woods, lake and waterfalls.  What more can we ask for?  Ate lunch in the woods, I lost walkie talkie(Kat found it), kids had a blast playing in water and fishing(no fish caught), and got in a 3 mile hike.

We arrived to Glacier National Park last Sunday. We stayed 2 days on the west side at Fish Creek and 2 days at St. Marys on the east side.  When we pulled to check in the rangers said there have been a couple bears running around the campground.  Ok, that made me a little nervous, because the kids bike around the loop and play outside a lot. The next day we heard they had to capture one of them, the bear bluffed charged someone.  Poor little bear got caught, taken away and is not coming back(he was 2).

We are at Glacier!

 

 

 

 

Our campsite.

 

 

 

 

We walked to Lake McDonald after dinner.

 

 

 

 

Kids, fully clothed, trying out the cold water.