Mike and I have been to Glacier before and we were really looking forward to taking the girls across the "Going to the Sun Road" which connects the east and west of the park. The road wasw constructed in 1927 and truly is an engineering masterpiece as it winds along the cliffs of the high country. Well, we pulled into town in crazy winds... it was about 50 degrees, the wind was like 60 mph (no joke) and we were notified at the visitor center that they have yet to open the road as it's still under 10-15 feet of snow! This is the second latest opening in it's history. The other latest opening was becuase of World War II as they didn't have enough workers! So.... we were relegated to hiking the lower parts of the park. No flowery high meadows that I remembered... oh well... next time! We still had a great time and hiked to a number of waterfalls which were raging due to the snow melt. Thankfully the wind died down and we were able to use our pop out the second night. We caught a yearling grizzly down by one of our lake hikes... only caught a few glimpses of him but it was really cool! We even drove around the park and took the kids to Lake McDonald where we stayed prior to our hike with Shaun and Di in the 90's. It's definitely been built up since then but it was a sweet reunion. God has blessed us SOOOOO richly on this trip...and in life in general. It humbles me.
We have this picture in our dining room... it was just a few decades ago!
Nice to bring the girls to a place we stood before they were born!
This is the lower Going to the Sun Road!
This is the US/Canadian Border! See the line cut thru the trees? I thought that was so cool.... We later took a boat ride down Waterton Lake where you could see this line clearly on both sides.... the US keeps this border clear at all times! Very cool.
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