Jim and I left Oregon mid January. I had always wanted to go to Yosemite National Park, so we stopped along the way for a few days. It was cold! There had been snow! It was quite the trip just to drive the RV to the RV park, and then more driving to actually get to Yosemite. I am so glad that we stopped. As you look through the pictures, you will see the winding road to get to the RV Park, ice on the waterfalls, lots of rainbows from the moisture. I am so glad we stopped during the winter, now to see what it is like in the summer.
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I talked Jim into heading over to Glacier Nat’l Park in Montana for 1 week. I am so glad that I did! I loved the park, the hiking, the scenery, the geology, the critters 
I love looking for wild animals and I got lucky this trip. Still, no moose 
I put my pictures out on Facebook, but I know many of you don’t have accounts, so I also put them up on Picasa. This way you can browse through them, run them as a slide show, or not look at them at all!
Glacier National Park Aug 2009 pictures
In a nutshell, this is what we did for our 6 days at Glacier:
- 8/16: we drove along Lake McDonald (it was windy and gloomy on this day, lots of clouds) and I made Jim stop over and over again to take pictures We continued on to the lodge and all the way up to the loop.
- 8/17: we drove around the bottom of the park on hwy 2, stopped at Goat Lick (no goats for us) and then on to Two Medicine Lake. Again, another gloomy, cloudy day.
- 8/18: I hiked up to Avalanche Lake on a ranger guided hike. Ranger Doug was full of stories, he is 83 years young and so spry heading up this 1.5 mile trail with 500 ft elevation climb. Again, I took lots of pictures and even got to see a black bear. In the afternoon, Jim and I drove up to Logans Pass and saw our first mountain goats.
- 8/19: Jim and I hiked the Hidden Lake trail from Logan Pass in the morning. Gorgeous day, so much sun! We got to see more mountain goats, marmots and bighorn sheep. We continued east on the Going-to-the-Sun hwy after the hike to St. Mary’s. We got to see osprey and a golden eagle soaring over a meadow looking for lunch. We figured we hadn’t had enough fun yet and I was still looking for a moose. We continued by driving up to Many Glaciers and Fishercap Lake. We just missed the moose by a few hours, but got to see the tracks in the mud. We continued up to Red Rock Falls. By this time, Jim was way overloaded on our hiking, so we headed back to the RV.
- 8/20: We drove up the west side to Polebridge, a small community that takes you back to the ’60s. We bought several yummy breads & cookies from the bakery and then continued our drive into the park. We decided to drive up to Bowman Lake. Beautiful! we chatted with some ladies that had just finished a hike and they had seen a mama black bear with 2 cubs about 20 minutes before they finished their hike. I would love to go back to this lake and have a kayak with me. So peaceful, so serene, so beautiful.
- 8/21: lazy day, we drove back to Lake McDonald to take the 1 hour lake cruise. It was fun, Clarissa our Ranger was interesting to listen to. We got to see a Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle and brown loons.
It was a very successful trip, enjoyed every minute and I would truly recommend that you go visit this wonderous park. Especially since the glaciers will probably be gone in 20 years or sooner and it will change the whole aspect of the park. Enjoy it while you can!
