Worldwide Wanderers

 Many Glaciers -- July 25, 2022  This morning we started with a drive to the Many Glaciers area. To get here, you have to exit the park on the East and go North. Before Many Glaciers entrance we found more rough road construction in progress.  Our first hike was Apikuni Falls; this looked like a nice short hike -- 0.8 miles one-way. However, it had more elevation gain in that short distance than Owen and I desired, but we made it. At the beginning, there were nice wildflowers.  We could see the waterfall upon approach.  At the waterfall, this squirrel was showing off -- stretching and flipping.  Next, we headed to Many Glacier hotel where there was a lot of parking behind these two runners. The hotel with the mountains, Swiftcurrent Lake, and clouds are so pretty.  Starting down the trail. We hiked past Swiftcurrent Lake, to Lake Josephine trail on the West side, and to part of Grinnell Glacier Lake trail.    This is the concessioner boat tha...

Going-to-the-Sun Road -- July 24, 2022   We hoped to get to Logan Pass by 6am to get a parking spot, so tried to get up at 5:30 am. We were a little late, not too bad, and had no trouble getting a spot. There was parking lot circling and asking if people were leaving later. They had the lot full sign up when we first arrived; I guess they don't take it down. The drive to Logan Pass was also very pretty, but we were planning to focus on it more later. We grabbed everything that we wanted (went back for jackets) to take on the first hike: Hidden Lakes Trail and stopped by the restroom. Then we found this guy from the parking lot.  And then more of his friends. Owen wanted his picture taken with the bighorn sheep.  Starting the trail, which starts as a boardwalk.  Then it turned into snow hiking. This was challenging but cool and fun too. There were some areas that you had to be careful not to head down because there was no stopping. This was an out and back hike that w...