On June 29th, Monday, we arrived at Columbia Falls RV Resort in Columbia Falls, Montana. For three weeks we plan on exploring Glacier National Park as much as possible, due to COVID-19 East Glacier is closed. Our first adventure after the rain stopped was to hike to Avalanche Lake, a short 2 mile hike from…
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Whitefish Montana Ski Trip
On January 5th, 2019, we flew to Kalispell, Montana, where we were greeted by Marguerite and Don Shepherd, then taken to their condo in the Meadow Lake Resort in Montana’s majestic Flathead Valley. We were here for a week of skiing at Whitefish Mountain Resort (formerly Big Mountain), with 3,000 acres of uncrowded terrain. It…
Yellowstone NP
On May 15th, 2019, we drove to the Yellowstone’s Edge RV Park, 35 miles north of the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It’s a beautiful RV park located on the Yellowstone River and our site was on the banks of the river. Every morning driving to Yellowstone we would stop at the Wild Flour…
Beartooth Scenic Highway
The Beartooth Scenic Highway opened to automobile travel in 1937, and is a National Scenic Byway, 68 miles in length winding through southwest Montana and northeast Wyoming. We left West Yellowstone early to avoid the traffic in Yellowstone and drove through the Park to the northeast entrance at Silver Gate where we stopped at the…
Missoula, Boseman and Big Sky, Montana
We left Columbia Falls RV Park today heading for Yellowstone NP. We stopped in Missoula and Bozeman for a few days and sampled some of the best breweries in the area. We went up to the Lolo Pass, (5,233 ft) in the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains, for a beautiful scenic drive and explored…
Whitefish Mt, Montana-Harpers 1st Summit
We left St Mary KOA and drove through the forest fires on Route 2 toward West Glacier, and arrived safely at Columbia Falls RV Park to visit with Kevin and Ericka in Kalispell. We met Kevin, Ericka, Harper, Linda and Panda at Whitefish Mountain Resort this morning to take Harper on her first hike. She…
Boulder Pass Hike, Glacier NP
This is considered the best backpacking trip in Glacier and I was able to get permits at 7am on Monday for 4 nights at some great campsites along Kintla Lake to Bowman Lake. Mike Harrison went out of his way on his birthday to meet us at Polebridge and drive us to the Trailhead at…
Redgap Pass-Elizabeth Lake Hike
Three days, 2 Passes, 32 miles in the heart of Glacier NP Day 1 We were fortunate to get back country permits for 2 nights from Many Glacier to Poia Lake and over Redgap Pass to Elizabeth Lake and back over Ptarmigan Tunnel, for three days of backpacking. We had all our gear packed and…
Two Medicine Hike, Glacier NP
We woke up to rain today, which is a blessing because of the forest fires in this Park. The Going-to-the-Sun road is still closed due to the Reynolds Creek fire. We decided to go to the Two Medicine Lake area of the Park in the southeastern section of the Park. All the way there it…
Grinnell Lake, Glacier NP
We are leaving Canada today to begin our trip south, and the first stop is Glacier National Park in Montana. We crossed the border into the States, and found out that anything that grows in the south is not allowed across the border. I gave the guard only some of my food, as we had…