Well we took the going-to-the-sun road again today, but this time we drove it ourselves in order to get to the other side of the park to access a super-cool and less crowded area called many glacier. Jeff drove over in the morning, and we saw another black bear crossing the road in front of us. Too cool.
The sun road is amazing and beautiful and a real monument to the WPA who built it so many years ago. It is also freaking scary. A one-foot high rock wall separates your car from a several thousand foot plunge. If you’re lucky. Because sometimes it’s just open. AND it’s ridiculously narrow, and on top of that some people who are clearly less acrophobic than i decide to bike it, and there are no bike lanes. Thank goodness jeff was driving on the way east, the much scarier way, and my only job was to quietly freak out. Which i did diligently.
But we made it just fine. Obviously. Many glacier is a cool spot. We visited the many glacier hotel, which is breathtaking, and from there took two boat tours across two gorgeous glacial lakes and proceeded to hikefour difficult miles up to grinnell glacier.
I thought i had ‘seen’ glaciers before. I hadn’t. Though we could not go out onto the glacier because of the danger of falling through, we got to see it up close in its entirety and it was phenomenal. GO. GO NOW. They estimate that all the glaciers in the park will be gone by 2030. Tragic.
The hike back was easier in some ways, but we were pretty exhausted from the ascent and jeff’s knees had stopped playing nice with him. We were pretty ragged by the time we got back to the boat dock. But our spirits were lifted a bit by the moose we saw coming out of the water at josephine lake.
The way back went smoothly, i even drove back over the sun road, white-knuckling it all the way even though it’s the easier way by far. some tacos, beer and foot-soaking did wonders once we finally got back to camp.
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