By this point its clear we won’t make it up to Vancouver. The question is, should we go to Glacier National Park? This would be quite a big detour from a straight trip to Seattle and would mean 6/7 hours on the road today and about 10 tomorrow. I ask that question knowing already that we decided to go... and were very glad we did.
We both agreed that the most stunning scenery we’ve seen is at Glacier. Yellowstone is definitely and freak-show of nature in some sense, Glacier is just plain old majesty.
We tried to get as far through the park on the ‘drive-to-the-sun’ road after pitching our tent in the campsite near the west entrance at around 4pm. We got a fairly long way through. We would have gotten further but we decided to stop to take in the sights of the ‘hidden lake trail’ Once again, in retrospect... a very good decision indeed.
The walk took us gradually up one side of a mountain where we experienced everything from blazing summer sun, to gentle breezes to quite a bit of trudging through snow (which felt surreal!) The walk ended with a beautiful view of a hidden lake (unsurprisingly), which sits between two of the peaks. The views were absolutely stunning! On top of this we also saw some mountain goats and a beaver-like thing (which I took a close up photo of).
By the time evening came we were glad we’d picked up some ‘pasta sides’ from the general store and headed back down the campsite via the intrepid mountain pass...
The campstove we have seemed pretty LOUD to be cooking at 11 at night in a fairly quite (bar snoring) camp site but we went for it anyway and no one complained.
Tomorrow... the big ride to seattle!
We both agreed that the most stunning scenery we’ve seen is at Glacier. Yellowstone is definitely and freak-show of nature in some sense, Glacier is just plain old majesty.
We tried to get as far through the park on the ‘drive-to-the-sun’ road after pitching our tent in the campsite near the west entrance at around 4pm. We got a fairly long way through. We would have gotten further but we decided to stop to take in the sights of the ‘hidden lake trail’ Once again, in retrospect... a very good decision indeed.
The walk took us gradually up one side of a mountain where we experienced everything from blazing summer sun, to gentle breezes to quite a bit of trudging through snow (which felt surreal!) The walk ended with a beautiful view of a hidden lake (unsurprisingly), which sits between two of the peaks. The views were absolutely stunning! On top of this we also saw some mountain goats and a beaver-like thing (which I took a close up photo of).
By the time evening came we were glad we’d picked up some ‘pasta sides’ from the general store and headed back down the campsite via the intrepid mountain pass...
The campstove we have seemed pretty LOUD to be cooking at 11 at night in a fairly quite (bar snoring) camp site but we went for it anyway and no one complained.
Tomorrow... the big ride to seattle!
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