Glacier National Park

Well we are sorry we have been off line for a few days, but we have been trying to keep a low profile with Bonnie and Clyde hiding out just a mile or so up the road from our lodge.  Actually the hotel advertised WiFi but when we got here it was not working.  We were in a pretty small community that catered to backpackers.  There was an Amtrak train that came through each evening and people actually got off and on.  Our hotel was right across the street from the train station so by the 3rd night we had the train schedules down pat.
We stayed in East Glacier Park in the Circle R lodge.  Don't bother to write that down unless the you enjoy torture.  The bed had no and I mean NO stuffing but plenty of uncontrollable springs. David and Matthew sleep on the floor.  I on the couch that sank to the floor when you sat on it  . . .Chad and Thelma fared OK as they were in the King bed in the other room.  I put on my red hat and marched down to the office and asked in a nice way for a new mattress for the hideaway.  We got a blow up mattress instead.  David was still on the floor, I might as well have been and by morning there was no air left in the mattress. 

Glacier National Park was just specular!  The views were so breath taking.  Pictures just do not do it justice.  The first evening we drove to Two Medicine Lake and scouted out the area.  The next morning, our first full day in Glacier, a black bear ran in front of our car as we were headed into the park.    The road into the park is full of free range cattle and horses.  Everytime Joanne would see a moving black animal she thought it was a black bear so from that point on we called the cattle black bearcows.  Later that morning another one ran across the road while we had stopped to take pictures.  We spent the rest of the day driving the Going the Sun Road over Logan's Pass.  Beautiful just beautiful!  We spent an hour or so up on Logan's Pass to walk around and for Matthew to take 1,000 more photos.  We saw a buck with a full rack.  Then we saw a mountain goat. We had a picnic lunch in the park and then came back over the Sun Road and called it a day.

Our last day in Glacier we drove over to Many Glacier.  There the park ranger gave Matthew a life time pass to any National Park that will get him and anyone who is with him into the parks free.  (It is good to be related to Matthew).  David, Matthew and Joanne took a 4 mile hike to Redrock Falls while Chad and Thelma sat on the front porch of the campground restaurant.  We stopped for another picnic lunch and David make friends with a ground squirrel that would eat from David's hand. Later that day on our way out we stopped again at the Many Glacier Lodge and the rangers had spotted a Grizzly and two cubs.  We were able to watch them through a very powerful scope the ranger had set up.  Really neat thing to see.

Wednesday we headed to Yellowstone.

Too many photos to show, so check out Matthew's facebook for additional photos.