Going to Glacier

This morning started out very unglamorous - laundry time.

About 12 noon, we started out for Whitefish, MT, which is just outside of Glacier.
We have reservations in Glacier for the 21st and the 22nd, at Many Glacier Hotel and Lake McDonald Hotel. You can check them out at www.glacierparkinc.com/Lodging/.

We drove through some very barren and rocky land in both WA and MT. I didn't know but a great section of WA is nothing but rock and sagebrush - the ground is so poor that they can not use the land, but there is a sign and exit for 'Military Site'. I did see a big gate and the end of the ramp that would limit access to this area.

We first entered MT by going thru Lookout Pass - it was up, down, and around the mountains, elevation 4540 and then up Rt 135, 200, 212, and 93. It covered a lot of different terrain. It began with very few houses but eventually we saw more homes, farms, green pastures, round bales of hay, people, and businesses. Although the landscape is more green, it is very different from WA - WA has thick trees, MT has some trees, very straight but not very big around. In WA, the trees covered every bit of ground possible, in MT there are big sections of open land with thin grasses, my guess it that the land will not support the weight and growth of the trees. We saw open wild land that were completely missing anything other than some weak looking grass.

I realized one thing about western MT that does bug me - it seems that no one plants any kind of flowers or maybe they just can't because of the weather, but flowers of some kind usually survive everywhere, but there aren't even wild flowers along the road - wierd.

But tomorrow is GLACIER NATIONAL PARK !!!!
I would like to be out of here by 6:30 - 7am - Mom said What TIME?
It will take us just over an hour to get to Glacier and who knows how many hours to drive across the Going-to-the-Sun road. It is 2 hours without stopping but I will be stopping for ......you guessed it....pictures!!

We will most likely not have cell or internet service until Wednesday evening when we return to Whitefish, so we will let you know how Glacier was. :):):)