Glacier National Park

Ok, so I got to Glacier National Park as early as I could, because I’ve noticed that campsites are pretty hard to get around here. Especially since it’s still a weekend (Sunday). I luckily got a camp site, there were only a few left.

As soon as I got my tent set up, I went to go see the sights of Glacier. It was very nice to actually be looking around a park during the day, rather than the middle of the night as seems to be my habit lately.

If you are ever in Glacier (you need to come to Glacier) you of course must drive the “Going to the Sun Highway”. I’m not so sure about the “Highway” part, but the road and view is gorgeous.

Allow time for stupid minivans, especially on the weekends, but it is still worth it.

I happened across the Continental Divide once more.

And also saw some rams and mountain goats. The larger mountain goat was attacking the rams to keep the smaller mountain goat safe. Of course it didn’t care at all about the 100 people and cars watching, but it really didn’t like that ram.

The “Glacier” part of Glacier National Park isn’t as impressive as I thought it’d be, especially after seeing the Glacier Bay on my last trip to Alaska. They have receded to approx 25% of what they were in 1850. Experts predict that the glacier will be completely gone in 2020.

On the way back to the camp site, I happened upon an awesome swimming hole. The water is soooo clear and clean you can hardly imagine it. There was a cliff diving area, and I even tried that. It was about 25-30’ high. I did not however, remember to bring my camera, and I’m quite pissed about that. Just imagine that I’ve inserted a photo below of me falling down a cliff face into a pool of ice cold water.

-Imaginary photo here-

When I got back to camp, I made dinner, and then for the first time on the trip, became bored. It was too late to go out and do anything else, and too early to go to bed. When you’re camping by yourself, especially with limited resources (no firewood, no book, no hammock) sometimes there just ain’t s---t to do.

Luckily my neighbors invited me over for a few beers, and asked about my trip. So that gave me plenty to do. They were a father-son team who were on their way to the back country for some back-packing action.

I hit the sack early, for some reason I was exhausted even though I slept in a hotel last night.