We had a good plan. After talking to some people at dinner the night before, we decided to leave Columbia Falls about 6:00AM to get through Glacier National Park on the Going to the Sun Road before the crowds got there. It was about a twenty minute ride to the park, and we needed to get some breakfast beforehand.
Everything was going as planned, and it was a brisk and windy for the 5 miles to Hungry Horse and the restaurant we scoped out the night before. The problem was that they were not yet open. We rode the rest of the way to the park and found a place that was to open at 7:00. We spent the 15 minutes or so before that talking to someone else who was waiting (who just happened to be from Marietta, Ohio). It would be the first of several times we would cross paths with him and his wife during the day.
The ride through the park was pretty much the same as I recorded on my last trip through two years ago, so I will keep this shorter by not re-hashing that. There were a couple of changes to the scenery from the previous trip. The most significant: LOTS OF SNOW. At Logan Pass, I took pictures of the surrounding area while standing on about three feet of snow. With all of the snow still melting, the waterflow int the park was much greater than my last trip. For instance, the weeping wall was a gusher this time around!
We spent the second half of the day looking for a place to stay for the evening. This being a holiday week, we have been finding it difficult to succeed in that area. Even the campgrounds fill up quickly. Tomorrow should bring an end to that as I believe that many folks will be heading home to begin their work week on Monday.
We ended the day at the Days Inn in Great Falls, Montana. We head to Red Lodge in the morning and follow that with a trip over the Beartooth Highway...
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