Glacier National Park, Montana

We were surprised to find that Kalispell, MT was so large.  I am not sure what we were thinking.  It has a Costco gas station, so that pretty much covers everything a human might need. We had the tires rotated and re-balanced at Discount Tire. Then, after having a windshield star crack fixed in Colorado Springs 10 days prior, we took another rock outside Kalispell.  This one is unfixable.  It's a replacement windshield already. Safelite call it equal to OEM, but I think it's not.  

Glacier National Park is a wonder. There are not really good words in the language to describe the feeling of awe you get around every corner.  We arrived on June 1st to blue skies and figured, based on the forecast, we'd have great weather today (the 2d).  You can't trust the weatherman. It was cold and rainy most of the day.  But we made the best of it.  

In the morning we were hopeful it would not rain.  We headed out on the Going to the Sun Road which is the E-W passage across Glacier. It's still snowbound at Logan Pass on top, but 14 miles on the west side of the pass are open only to cyclists and hikers.  This will persist until they get the rest of the snow plowed. It was magical to ride this road with no other humans in sight. But it was a little disconcerting to pass bear scat more than a dozen times in the 6 miles we went uphill.  One pile was steaming. 

On recommendations from brother Mark and sister-in-law Sherri, we drove 25 miles north of the park entrance along spectacular scenery and some muddy dirt roads to land at Polebridge, MT.  The cinnamon rolls are excellent.  Early dinner. 

Then we drove 8 miles on a Jeep trail to Bowman Lake just in time to see some kayaks take off