Glacier Update

Yesterday was our best day yet at Glacier National Park! We got up at 4:30 am so we could get into Glacier National Park before the holiday crowds. We arrived about 6:30 and started up Going to the Sun Highway. While we were still down at the bottom, we passed a guy riding his bike up the road and then we saw a black bear! So we parked the car a little way up from the bear to be sure the biker made it past the bear. He sure was excited about seeing a bear on his bike! Then the bear walked up the road right past our car!

When we reached Logan Pass at the top (35 miles of winding road going up, up up), the parking lot was empty except for . . . a herd of big horned sheep! The visitor center at Logan Pass sits right at the Continental Divide. We hiked up a trail through snow and we were the only people up that high so early in the morning . . . at least for a little while. We felt like we were alone on top of the world. We saw marmots. After that we took another hike where we saw 16 big horn sheep in a pasture and momma mountain goats with baby goats! The wildflowers are all blooming here now and we saw fields filled with Glacier Lillies. After eight hours we headed back to the motorhome and that was our best day in Glacier National Park.


Sunrise and moon set in Glacier National Park.