Whitefish to

       Glacier, National Park



Lake McDonald at Apgar Village


We spent two nights in Whitefish, MT. A beautiful resort town right outside of Glacier, NP. Saturday morning we went Zip lining. There were 6 lines. Two of the lines were so high we had to ride a chair lift up to them. The rest of the lines we hike up to carrying our 15 lb. trolleys ( it’s the thing that goes over the cable.) We were with a great group and had a ball. The best ever.

The next day we headed to the west side of Glacier for 2 days. We stayed inside the park at Apgar Village. The room was right on the river. What a view. We took the free shuttle buses on the Going to the Sun Road from Apgar Village all the way to St. Mary’s on the east side. ( You can get off and on as you please). It made it nice as neither one of us had to drive. The views were breath taken. All we could say is WOW. At the top (Logan Pass) we saw mountain goats and big horn sheep.

We than moved on to Many Glacier/Swiftcurrent Motor Lodge Inn. It’s on the east side of the park. Let’s just say the place was not the Ritz. After checking in we took a great hike to Red Rock Falls. We had planned on another hike but there had been sightings of a grizzle and her cubs on the trail. The hike and the falls were beautiful. Lots of water.

The next day we headed up to Waterman Lakes National Park. It’s the Canadian side of Glacier NP. The Prince of Wales Hotel sits on a hill overlooking Waterman Lake. The hotel has huge pictures windows that frame the seven-mile-long string of mountains ringing the lake. What a beautiful setting.

Than on to Glacier Park Lodge “The Big Tree Lodge” as the Blackfeet knew it. It amazes visitors with a lobby lined with gigantic fir trees. The lodge is located in East Glacier. The grounds around the hotel were wonderful- flowers everywhere. I think it was the prettiest lodge in the park.

We are now heading to Mt. Rushmore and Custer Sate Park after 10 wonderful days of sightseeing in the Northwest…….

Pictures later.





Beautiful water front

Yellowstone to Florida



Our last day of work was Sunday. We only had to work a couple of hours so decided to take one last ride thru Yellowstone. We went to Yellowstone Lake Hotel for our last lunch in the park. Great lunch -nice view of the lake.

We left Monday after checking out with HR and headed west to Missoula to spent the night. We stopped in Deer Lodge were the Grant-Kohrs Ranch is located. It was one of the largest ranches in the US-started in l859-it is still a working ranch today.

Tuesday AM we headed to the National Bison Range. Than on to Coeur D’ Alene, Idaho. The drive was beautiful. What a great place. The town is located on a beautiful lake close to Spokane, WA. (I think we are heading the wrong way-this is not the way to Florida.)

Wed we headed east. We are going to Glacier National Park for a few days before heading to SD and than home.

Main street Coeur D' Alene



Coeur D' Alene water front




Our new friend




This is our new job



The Orlando Dyer family in Yellowstone



We had a wonderful day






Buddy Karen and Drew came to visit us last week. They got here late Thursday afternoon. We headed down to the lower falls as Karen had not been here before. Got some great pictures and than went back to Mammoth for a wonderful supper of trout. ( This was fine dining not EDR food). What a treat.



Next day we took them on a tour of the park. We took in all the waterfalls/geysers/wild life/ and just beautiful sights along the way. Nice lunch at the Yellowstone Hotel overlooking the lake. It’s such a beautiful hotel. We than headed on to Old Faithful area chekcking in all the geysers. I hope they had as fun seeing Yellowstone as we did showing it to them.



Nana and Drew




A go for sun rail



Our Drive to Red Lodge

We drove over the Bear Tooth Mountain to Red Lodge for lunch.  It was the first day the road was open. In fact we were the first car going west to east. You wouldn’t believe all the snow.  Some places it was 20 to 30ft. Deep.  People were still skiing up there.  This is June in Montana.  We came home by way of the Chief Joseph Hwy.
What beautiful scenery.  Montana is such a beautiful state.

Bison playing

Look at all the snow

Falls on the Bear Tooth  Hwy

This is the way to the bathroom/??????

The Top of the World on Bear Tooth



June in Montana

 



Look at all the snow

Spring sports in Montana

The  Wonderful Animals of Yellowstone

These are some of the animals that we have seen in the last few days.

Mother and twins

Love these Red Dogs

Kathleen- Nancy- Nancy

What a beautiful place

Flying Across the Gallatin River

What a great day we had last Thursday.  We went Zip Lining over the
Gallatin River.  7 of us went from Yellowstone.

The setting could not have been better.  It was were the movie A River Runs Through was filmed.  The rock formations with the river below was just beautiful.

You fly twice across the Gallatin River.  You have 3 zips and 4 adventure elements  (bridges that you have to climb to). What a fun day and we all lived to tell about it.

I can't believe I'm up here.

Will I ever get up there

Hope he catches me

It's a long ways down

The gang

Snow snow lot's of snow

Yellowstone weather up-date

It's just beautiful

Winter is still hanging around.  The whole park is under  blizzard  conditions.  The East entrance is closed due to several avalanches.  It’s been closed for weeks.  Most of the  roads in the south part of the park are also closed due to deep snow. You can not get from the Old Faithful area to Jackson.  Jackson is also snowed in. From Mammoth were I’m working going east they have had a rock slide so that part of Yellowstone is also closed.  In the Grant area 4 of the employee’s cabins have collapsed and 26 guest rooms have had their walls pushed in by the snow  We have been very busy in reservations with all the cancellations. 

This was taken at Canyon Village

 We are the only part of the park without  snow.  We have green grass and flowers.  The bison are having their babies-the elk will in the next two weeks.  We are seeing lots of bears.