MONTANA / Day 4
Today we went to go up to Logan's Pass, riding a tour bus up the Road to the Sun. This is the only time during our trip where we really got to go deep into the park and see some actual glaciers. Unfortunately, due to global weather changes, the handful of glaciers that are left are far away on out-of-reach peaks and will likely disappear altogether in the next 5 years. On the bright side, even once the glaciers are gone, the park itself is still an amazingly beautiful landscape of wildly dramatic mountain ranges, waterfalls, lakes and streams, all under Montana's huge blue sky. Tomorrow we'll head out back to Idaho, going up north to Sandpoint, a "beach" resort.
MONTANA / Day 3
We start the day from Missoula and head further east to reach our final destination, Glacier National Park. Leaving Missoula, we first went to Whitefish, a small town just west of GNP which during the winter serves as Montana's premiere ski resort. Along the way we stopped at Flat Head Lake, probably the largest lake in Montana. After Whitefish, we continued to drive to our lodging at East Glacier, being attacked by some serious bugs during a quick photo stop along a river. After arriving at the lodge and dropping off our stuff, we headed over to Two Medicine Lake (the upper, not the lower). Hiked around a bit and went on a boat cruise which we lucked out on since that's the moment the weather decided to give us a quick shower. After the skies cleared up and we got back to shore, we headed back to the lodge where we turned in early for a busy upcoming Wednesday.
