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Glacier National Park Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Glacier National Park, United States
More mountains (and rain)!
... at 10:30pm. Reluctantly we bundled ourselves up again and braced ourselves for more winter mountain weather driving up to Glacier National Park. Not surprisingly it began to rain as soon as we began climbing the hills, puttering along in our little ...
Just another park
I got up earlier than the others- eager to see where I was. The air was cold- frigid- and frost had collected in a thin layer on vegetation and tents. I looked to the west and the mountain was peering out at me, a blanket of cloud sitting beneath the ...
Onward........
Spent a couple of nights relaxing here. Saw the grizzlies feeding on the mountain again......thru a spotting scope!Took a long hike up to Iceberg Lake.....made it above the treeline. The views were inspiring. Iceberg lake was truly beautiful with chunks ...
Hiking through glacier country
... , in the end, it was just a deer munching on the grass. This though does remind me that unlike some parks the Glacier park ranger recommend leaving everything besides food in your tent. It appears the animals are attracted to the salt you sweat and ...
Icy!
... we call this state # 7!) and onto Montana, about 450 miles (that’s nearly 700km). Today we are heading to Glacier National Park, Montana. This park is also shared with Canada and was the world’s first international national park (if ...
2nd day in Glacier
... outside the restaurant.) We saw so much wildlife this day. It was phenomenal and we had a great time. Great scenery also but what's new about that. Glacier is one place that is easy to take in and has an awful lot to see. Well worth ...
15 miles of yakfishing
We started at the West Glacier entrance to the Flathead River and decided to paddle down to Hungry Horse, MT, just beyond the south fork of the river. We had no idea exactly how long or how rough the paddle would be. I kept thinking, "I guess ...
Stunned by moving ice
We woke to a winter wonderland and then spent the day gazing at this bay of glaciers and icebergs. We were woken by our friendly porter delivering a special champagne breakfast. Not just a chilled bottle of champers, but an altogether exoitc ...
John's Lake Loop, Rocky Point Trail
It is our last day at Glacier. Linda and I parked at the John's Lake Trailhead and hiked a short distance to John's Lake. We continued on our hike to John's Lake Loop Trail which took us along McDonald Creek, Sacred Dancing Cascade and ...
Lake McDonald boat ride
... year old wooden boat. The boat ride was spectacular and lasted one hour. Lake McDonald is the second largest lake in Glacier. After the boat road, Linda and I hiked to Fish Lake which was 6 miles round trip. A large ...
Hiking to Avalanche Lake
We are excited again. We are going to Glacier National Park which we wanted to see for a long time. It is hard to believe that we are finally going to see the park. We anticipate this will be a crowded day as it is the 4th of July, ...
We're at sea
... whitecaps on it, and the water was sloshing all over the place. Anyway, things are better today and we will be entering glacier bay this morning. Hopefully the clouds will break and we will get to see some of the sights. We'll check ...
Glacier Bay
... about whales and what we could expect if we spotted any along our travels. Next we listened to a presentation about Glacier Bay National Park from a park ranger who had boarded our ship earlier via a rope ladder. A group of 3 rangers would be spending ...
Glacier National Park
Drove with my friend Wei during Independence Day holiday. We were planning to visit Banff in Canada, but first we stopped at Glacier National Park. We drove through the park from east to west, and found the scenery along the Going To The Sun Road to be ...
day 57
WOW--glacier national park is the second must see place before you die, the scenery--hiking---the drive around---wildlife--mountain streams and lakes, we only stayed 4 days here, looking back we should have stayed atleast a week. god this place was ...
The Going to the Sun Road. Part II. Hell
... thunderstorms. Now is not the time"! We continued with safe passage to the west side and met with our outfitter in West Glacier to set up our shuttle for our Kayak trip on Saturday. On our return trip we stopped at the Lake McDonald Lodge for ...
Pepper spray and securirty
... ;ll be staying at on Thursday and Friday, they are going to keep it there for us and our gear, while we fly to Glacier Bay National Park for two days. Grabbed a cab as we had several hours before our flight, and headed to Downtown Juneau. Our cab driver ...
Yee-Haw!
... the road. Barring a few stops at turnouts on the way up, Logan Pass was where we spent most of our morning. I discovered from a park ranger that the near Logan Pass had just opened up a few weeks ago because of heavy snow fall. Because of this snow fall, ...
Going To The Sun Road
... and have lunch in the Swiss chalet style historic inn. After lunch, we have a terrific lecture about Yellowstone and Glacier National Park by Ashley Mason, who is a former National Park Ranger. She deftly teaches us about the history, fauna and ...
Glaciar National Park
... Amtrak Train. Even after going through a long trip, Kristen's grandparents seem to be full of energy to continue towards Glaciar National Park. So within a few hours of arriving, we were headed towards the entrance of Glaciar National Park near Lake ...
Hike to Grinnell Glacier
... weather started to clear up.. so I jumped on the chance to do the 12 mile roundtrip to Upper Grinnell Lake and Glacier. Really outstanding scenery: water cascading down every ridge, impossibly blue-colored glacier lakes, and the fall-colored aspen trees. ...
Glacier Bay - and a fabulous day
Glacier Bay National Park Saturday August 21, 2010 Today we take on park rangers at Bartlett Point and enjoy their commentary throughout the day as we tour the bay. They board by a rope ladder "on the fly". All day it ...
Our day on Glacier Bay
... only affected the northern areas of the globe. This second ice age is credited for the events that would eventually create Glacier Bay National Park. In the 1680's Glacier Bay was a broad valley with a glacier slowing moving down from the mountains thru ...
2nd Day at Glacier
Thursday, October 9th - Drove up Going to the Sun road & hiked the Hidden Lake trail in snow & ice. Then hiked Apgar Lookout trail. Motel - Glacier Highlands resort in West ...
Rental Car Exploring
... and take an “out of the park” road back part way. This was Highway 464 and it goes a good ways east of Glacier Park, but the highway is fantastic and we can cruise 80 mph and feel like we are standing still. This land is flat rolling ranch ...
Glacier National Park...Nuff Said!
... SHima is not allowed on the closed road even. not even a trail. for all of u thinking about taking ur dogs to national parks DONT. they cant go anywhere but the car or campground. so i heard i had to see this place so i left Shima ...
Backing Down
... there, we stand on the overlook and watch it go, but not as rushing as the spring, what month is best to come? Out of the Park now, out past everything that's closed. A deer lies beside the road, hit by a car? Sad for you, little guy. A place I know ...