Friday, September 25, 2009

This is info from Thursday - Sep 24 which didn't post that day (I don't know why.)

Didn't have internet last night but this is the post from yesterday (Thursday). We left Havre, Mt. early this morning thinking we would get to Glacier National Park quickly. Didn’t happen. We were further away than we thought. The temperature is forecast to be 93 in the valley and 87 on the mountain. I am really glad it hasn’t turned cold yet. As we drove through Montana we saw another unusual silo. We had seen several and decided to photograph this one. We continued to see small herds of deer in the grain fields and also saw a coyote today. It was about 1 p.m. before we actually got to the park. We were encouraged by one of the ladies that worked for our hotel last night. She told us that the road to the sun was open to the top of the mountain. This was different than what we had been told at the Montana visitors’ center. As we drove into St. Mary (the eastern gateway to the park), it became clear that we needed to find a hotel room. There were only two facilities still open (most close when the pass over the mountain closes for construction.) We got a room but it is certainly not the HILTON! Oh well, it is just for one night! As the saying goes, at least it is clean! The view from this room is wonderful. Once we checked in we went to the park. Since we were facing the sun, we went to the top of the mountain first. This is Logan’s pass and the sign there indicated we were at the continental divide. We took our time on the way back down and made lots of photographs. We saw a huge waterfall in the distance and then later saw a waterfall by the roadside with a rainbow. There were beautiful creeks and I even got a picture of James being “up the creek.” We encountered the first real fall colors that we have seen. The park ranger said that this area would not have the red fall colors that are prevalent in the north east. We also made pictures of the mountain side and one picture which captured the Jackson glacier in the distance. It was really hazy in the mountain and made us think of the Smokies. It was difficult to find a place to eat tonight but we finally found a cute diner, Two Sisters. The food was really good. We met a couple from Canada at the hotel tonight and they said the temperature in Canada today was 33! As I shivered, they laughed and said that was 33 C. and equated to approximately 87 F! That is where we head tomorrow (after we go through the road – “Many Glaciers”.) No internet tonight so I will have to post this later.











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