Glacier Highland Resort West Glacier

This is a really weird feeling, leaving home for a five month adventure. We do a lot of traveling, but never one of this length. It's required an humongous amount of planning and while we've tried to think of all contingencies, we know that's not even possible. <br>And that's OK--part of the seat-of-your-pants traveling we're best at.<br>We ...

We&#8217;ve recently made a trip to three National Parks: Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier. The short description of this trip together with multiple photos was published on our website http://www.innaartwork.com/ (specifically in ...

... on Lake MacDonald at a closed picnic area, we continued on to the Apgar campground where we settled in for two nights (typical cookie cutter lots) since it was the only open west side spot. Although in retrospect, while touring a ten-plus year forest fire area in the park and looping back through the Flathead National Forest, we found a beautiful campground with sites on the banks of the Flathead River. In the US, National Forests ...

Kalispell is actually starting to feel like home away from home! The mechanic ran into delays, truck won't be ready till Wednesday, so we are catching up with laundry, grocery shopping, haircuts, and resting. Wondering what we'll find when we open up the trailer after this long week. Need to get re-organized before we head west again. <br>

... us a loaner, we will leave the camper at the dealership for the week and we will head towards Canada in this red Corolla. Drive through Banff and Jasper? Try to find V's distant cousin that we've been wanting to meet for over 25 years? Looking on the map, they live waaayy up north in British Columbia. What the heck! Maybe we'll just go for it!<br>

Glacier National Park is fantastic. The highway, named "Into The Sun<br>Highway" (exactly what we were doing!), hugs the mountainside, dips<br>into valleys and brings you up through glorious passes. It's like a 50<br>km scenic roller coaster ride. Wheeeee!

... I a chance to explore the park a bit more since last summer we had the dogs with us and couldn't get off onto any trails. However, last summer we got to ride over the pass but it was still closed when we got there on June 17th. Montana had record snowfall last winter and there was still 8+feet on the road when we got there. So it was a little give and take and we got the best of both with each trip ...

... driving through Montana. The part of western MT I drove through has been plagued by forest fires all summer. There is a haze all through the state and the smell of smoke is everywhere. I took the scenic drive through Glacier National Park. It was raining and the smoke was everywhere, but it was a beautiful drive. The unusual atmospheric conditions painted the landscape in sepia tones. My drive through Denali was on a bus of 50 people. This ...

... The view is still stark from a distance, but upon a close inspection it's obvious that life is returning to the burned areas. Jeff didn't see much wildlife during the paddle, but a bald eagle did fly above and roost nearby for a while. Most of the day was enjoyed taking a drive to Logan Pass on the Going-To-The-Sun Road, the main road through the park. The Park is in the process of rebuilding the road, so it was closed past it's apex at Logan ...

... himself like poor old Keith. We saw more mountain goats on the way back just walking around. We also saw a Rocky Mountain ram up close. If he wanted to, he could kick our ass with his big rounded horns. We also saw a squirrel-like guy who stood on his hind legs for us. I think we saw what looked like beavers by the trail but I'm not sure. It was definitely something if not a beaver. From afar, you could see the white-spotted birds but I doubt they'll show up on the roll of ...