Glacier NP to Cut Bank, MT

There are two large lakes in Glacier National Park. This is Lake McDonald on the west of the park.

During the summer, they had shuttle buses to transport visitors around the park. However, they discontinued this service after Labor Day. Our only way to travel the Going to the Sun Highway was to take a tour on one of these buses. It was fun riding in this bus with the top rolled back. They were first used during the '30's and in recent years reconditioned by Ford Motor Company and returned to use in Glacier and some of the other national parks. Our driver and tour guide was most interesting. He has been giving tours for about 7 years. He lives north of the park, near the Canadian border, away from electricity and other conveniences. His mailbox is a mile from his house, which he built from trees on his property. He was very knowledgeable about all aspects of the park.


You can see the road in the distance that we traveled (the horizontal line less that halfway down the picture.)

We passed mile after mile of farmland and saw hundreds of grain silos. Most of the newer silos were made of steel and a few of concrete. Occasionally you would see an ancient wooden one. Farmers prefer to store their grain until prices are better.

West Glacier, MT to Glacier NP, MT

Here are two waterfalls we saw today in Glacier National Park.

Iceland Parkway to West Glacier, MT

This was our fourth time to Lake Louise and the first time it was cloud free. Here are two of the many pictures we took.


This was another mountain reflection we viewed from Highway 93 south of Lake Louise.


We also liked this view.



On the outskirts of Radium Hot Springs we saw this momma mountain goat and her youngster on the side of the mountain.


Radium Hot Springs had flowers everywhere.


Carol spotted this mountain of hoodoo formations.



We will end today with a colorful evening sky.

Prince George, BC to Iceland Parkway

Some more beautiful scenery as we traveled toward Jasper and Banff.


This was one of the Bighorn Sheep we encountered.

Hazelton, BC to Prince George, BC

As we drove the Yellowhead Highway toward Prince George, we passed this mountain scene.



We remember hearing about Terry Fox, a young Canadian man who developed cancer at the age of 18. He was told his left leg would have to be amputated below the knee. While in the hospital he saw the pain and despair of others who had CA and decided to do something to help. He planned to run from one coast to the other and asked Canadians to contribute $1 each, which would have amounted to $24,000,000. He was half way to his home in British Columbia when he was forced to stop his run because the CA had spread to his lungs. He passed away just before hie 23rd birthday. However, many millions of dollars has been raised for CA research. A mountain along the Yellowhead Highway has been named for him, but clouds obscured it, so we could not get a picture.

Hyder, AK to Hazelton, BC

Before we left, we returned to the bear viewing area. Even though we did not see any bears, we did find these Common Merganser Ducks.



As we drove the road from Hyder, AK/Stewart, BC we passed the Bear Glacier.

Hyder, Alaska

We had such a special time two years ago when we visited Hyder that we decided to go out of our way to again see the bears eating the spawning salmon. However, it seems the salmon spawned earlier this year. Since it was raining and the bears were few, we only stayed one day.



While we were waiting for bears to come, John heard a bird singing and spotted this Townsend's Warbler.




They had some interesting cartoons regarding how to act when bears are near.