St. Mary'S Lodge
Travel Blogs from Saint Mary
The fun never ends!
... and also saw another mountain goat, this one was standing in one of the scenic pull off areas. It was around 9pm and getting dark when we noticed flashing lights and many cars pulled off to the side. Then we heard a pop and saw a smoky area in the sky. Then we saw a ranger creeping up into the brush with a gun and we saw a grizzly bear towering in the grass on its hind legs! We saw the bear walking away and heard a gunshot and also saw ...
Umwerfend
Nach dem Weckerklingeln waren wir bei Temperaturen nahe dem Gefrierpunkt (40° Fahrenheit) nach rekordverdächtigen 25' startklar. Der herrliche Sonnenaufgang entschädigte für die durchgefrorenen Glieder. Der Streckenverlauf der Going-to-the-Sun Road ist auf der Ostseite des Logan Passes interessant, aber noch nicht wirklich spektakulär. So erreichten wir zügig die Passhöhe und somit den Startpunkt unserer Wanderung. Diese führte uns zum Hidden Lake, ...
Clouds, mist, and cold weather can't stop us!
... for gas. The guys at the gas station recommended getting pizza from the Villager, the SAME restaurant that we ate breakfast! So off we went for pizza. We had the same waiter and same table as we had in the morning! We ordered pizza and a huckleberry shake to share. The shake was delicious, but most of us liked the pizza from the K-Bar in Jackson Hole better. Back at the lodge, we looked in the souvenir shop and then went to our room for showers and bed. ...
There's TONs of beauty and fun in WaterTON!
... Eagle and some of us saw a bear just before it went into the woods. An ice cream treat at Big Scoop in Waterton was our next stop, and then we went back to our hotel to take a few more pictures and to buy a couple souvenirs (a patch for William and a postcard for Elise). As we left the Waterton area we decided to drive to Red Rock Canyon. When we saw a group of people standing with cameras we stopped to see that the big attraction was bears! There ...
Road to the Sun and a swim in Lake McDonald
... the most interesting but the light was never just right to take his or her picture; one deer or elk or whatever it was was just stunning with its incredible rack of antlers but I failed to take its picture as well; I'm not much into dead animals I guess. Back to breakfast which was okay, the coffee was good, they did have a ten dollar European breakfast buffet and a thirteen dollar full buffet but I am still trying to reduce my belt size and who needs all that food anyway? ...