This summer, we’ve learned a little about the Great Northern Railway, which was built in the late 19th century and originally ran from St. Paul, MN, to Seattle, WA, and whose construction was integral to the creation of Glacier National Park. For decades during the 1800’s, explorers and surveyors searched for a pass through the…
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Iconic Hikes!
Sorry it’s been so long since I posted anything; we’ve been busy working and having the kinds of adventures that I keep hoping to blog about when I get some free time. But today I’m here to bring whatever readers I still have left up to speed on one of those activities: hiking! We’ve been…
Looking Glass Road
You can’t say you weren’t warned. All the signs are there. But none of the guard rails! And when I saw the sign below, I really did have to wonder what I was getting myself into… Looking Glass Road is the local name for Route 49, which runs between East Glacier and St. Mary, Montana….
The Mighty Quinn’s!
My Aunt Alice and Uncle Ted paid us a visit on their own epic national park tour a couple weeks ago. So we took the opportunity to spend one day of their visit at the upscale hot springs I mentioned in an earlier post: Quinn’s Hot Springs! Quinn’s is located a little south of Wild…
Logan Pass
After much anticipation and a few false starts, our season has finally gotten fully underway with the opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road and the Logan Pass Visitor Center! With an elevation of 6,646 feet, Logan Pass is the highest point along the road and sits directly at the Continental Divide. And it is definitely the…
Cracker Lake
A week or so ago, I went on an epic hike to Cracker Lake. I would have liked to write about it sooner, but have been happily busy with other, more pressing activities. But today, I’m homebound thanks to a somewhat Biblical four-day rainstorm that has caused the National Park Service to close the Going-to-the-Sun…
Trailer Cuisine
You may recall from last year’s posts that we spent the summer as the lucky beneficiaries of the Tower Falls Employee Dining Room, where all of our meals were lovingly curated by professional chefs! Although their idea of a healthy diet didn’t always match mine (read: 100 continuous days of beef), I was super happy…
Two Medicine
One of the most beautiful places in Glacier lies in the southeastern corner of the park: the Two Medicine area. This rugged, unspoiled wilderness is miles away from hotels and restaurants and, aside from the small camp store next to Two Medicine Lake, is untouched by commerce. The lake itself sits in a valley carved…
Cousin Love!
This past weekend was Memorial Day in the US–a perfect time for family to get together! And my cousin Delia flew out to visit us with two of her four children–Juniper and Steve–who are also cousins, just a different generation. But we all had a great time hiking in Glacier and biking Going-to-the-Sun Road on…
Polebridge
Well, the weather has once again taken a turn and we woke up to this on our day off. So we’re not going hiking, we’re not going biking; instead, we took a scenic drive to… Polebridge! We’ve seen it on the map, about 25 miles away from Apgar Visitor Center (which is one of the…