Monday, June 30, 2008
Goodbye Glacier
Today was our last full day at Glacier. It’s been a great time here. The campground and campsite we’re in is fantastic. The scenery has been stunning, and the weather has been amazing too. Today it was actually too hot. We’d brought our down jackets as I had read that it could snow in June and would likely be very cold at least in the evenings. Today at 6:00 pm it was 94 degrees! I’m writing this at 10:40 pm, and it’s 75. I’m sitting out in the waning twilight because it’s still 80 in the trailer.
After another fun family breakfast, I went for a bike ride. I rode up and down Camas road. It was a great 25 mile ride. I was riding through a forest that burned in 2003. It’s impressive how much burned – everything was burned as far as I could see in every direction. There were lots of signs at pullouts along the road describing how good it was for the forest and the animals when there are forest fires.
After lunch we went on a park service run boat tour on Lake McDonald. It was quite unimpressive, and all of us would have been happy to spend our time doing something else (like playing on the lake ourselves).
After dinner we walked back to Apgar village (as we’ve done each night), but this time the girls wore their swim suits and they all jumped in the lake. It was great fun to watch their faces as they dealt with the shock of the cold water. I was kicking myself for not bringing a camera – especially the video camera. After their swim the girls had ice cream cones. Everything around here is about huckleberry, so there were a number of huckleberry cones. They were excellent. ☺
Tomorrow we say goodbye to Glacier and drive to Farragut State Park in Idaho where we plan to spend 4 nights.
After another fun family breakfast, I went for a bike ride. I rode up and down Camas road. It was a great 25 mile ride. I was riding through a forest that burned in 2003. It’s impressive how much burned – everything was burned as far as I could see in every direction. There were lots of signs at pullouts along the road describing how good it was for the forest and the animals when there are forest fires.
After lunch we went on a park service run boat tour on Lake McDonald. It was quite unimpressive, and all of us would have been happy to spend our time doing something else (like playing on the lake ourselves).
After dinner we walked back to Apgar village (as we’ve done each night), but this time the girls wore their swim suits and they all jumped in the lake. It was great fun to watch their faces as they dealt with the shock of the cold water. I was kicking myself for not bringing a camera – especially the video camera. After their swim the girls had ice cream cones. Everything around here is about huckleberry, so there were a number of huckleberry cones. They were excellent. ☺
Tomorrow we say goodbye to Glacier and drive to Farragut State Park in Idaho where we plan to spend 4 nights.
# posted by Craig @ 10:00 PM 
