Glacier National Park

Today we made the trip over the Going to the Sun road. It's a famous road that traverses the lower half of Glacier N.P. During the winter some parts of the road receive 800-1000 inches of snow! In the spring, portions of the road has to be resurveyed before crews know where to start snowplowing. They usually start to dig it out in April and it opens fully sometime in mid-June. The scenery is spectacular! I have had such a hard time just picking a few photos to post.




We saw these mountain goats at Logan Pass. They were so close. Also notice the ground squirrel .

We drove the entire road over to St. Mary lake on the east side. At the lake, we had a picnic lunch and took a boat ride. At the other end of the lake, we disembarked and hiked to two waterfalls. The second part of the hike was lead by a park service intern. It was a 3 mile round trip hike and then we caught the boat back to the dock.

We stopped at a little restaurant/bar for burgers on the way home. It turned out to be a biker bar and we were definetly the only tourists in the place. I bought a lotto ticket when Mike stopped to get some gas so come Wednesday, we should be millionaires...I wish.