Friday, July 20, 2012

Two Medicine Lake

On the boat, Sinopah over the lake called Two Medicine Lake.  

I rode a boat over the lake to get to the guided tour.  At the end of the hard hike there was a gorgeous waterfall which was rewarding.  

The end of the guided tour.

Trail of Cedars

Avalanche Creek on the Trail of Cedars inside Glacier National Park.

The most common cause of death in Glacier National Park is drowning.  That fact reassures me that maybe I will not get eaten by a bear while I am up here in Montana.  One of my family members keeps telling me that bears eat berries.  The huckleberry is their food by choice.   
In fact I have rarely seen any animals while I have been in Montana.  I seen some cows and horses on the way up.  I seen some bullhorn sheep and mountain goats.  I have been bitten by mosquitos.  Seen a few spiders and webs.  

The Trail of Cedars is partially a walkway made of a wooden boardwalk.  

This was the easiest walk or hike I have tried all week.  It is 0.9 miles long.  I met a nice couple who asked me to take a photo for them.  It was unusual because I never been asked to take a photo with an I-pad before.  The photo area took up the whole area of the 7x9 computer screen.


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Glacier National Park


Here I am up at Glacier National Park, near the Trail of Cedars.


This bus called a jammer shuttles visitors throughout Glacier National Park.  Ford rebuilt the busses to a truck chassis, switched the busses to automatic and made it run on propane.  They were called jammers because they use to switch gears and it would jam.
Glacier National Park
A large sheet of ice, called a glacier moved through this valley in Montana leaving a "U" shape.  It is the middle of July and I was hiking past snow, a cloud descended like a thick fog and it begun to rain heavily.  Good thing I was wearing lightweight shorts and a t-shirt.