Montana

Montana, our 33rd state, and the home of Glacier National Park. Wowsers! For once, maybe I'll let the photos do most of the talking here :-) We hiked every day here, and covered just over 68 kilometres in the five days, saving the 17.6km hike for our last day! We saw some really great stuff. This is somewhere to get to soon: they say that in 1850 there were 150 glaciers here, but now there are 25 and by 2030 it's expected there will be no glaciers left at all.



An awesome lunch spot on our first day

What a setting for our breakfast on day 2!

Fiona trying to be arty at brekky :-)

Hike to Snyder Lake - every day we were hiking in grizzly country and would walk with a couple of rocks in our hands (not quite sure what I thought they would do...have you seen a grizzly?!) and make lots of silly noises. Fortunately we scared them off!

Lunch spot on day 2

Avalanche Lake, Day 3

The Going-to-the-Sun Road is the only road that goes from one side of Glacier NP to the other, and the scenery along it was amazing

On our way to Hidden Lake, Day 3

Hidden Lake

Mountain goat near Hidden Lake

Iceberg Lake, Day 4. Just behind us you can see the bottom of the glacier breaking up in the glacial lake.

OH MY GOSH IT'S A MOOSE!!! WITH ANTLERS!!! This was a young bull, the big bulls have really big antlers, but nonetheless, this was a beautiful animal

St Mary Glacier KOA, our campground for the last 3 nights at Glacier....what a view!!!

Bighorn sheep on the way to Grinnell Glacier

Grinnell Glacier - there is some melted glacier in the forefront

Grinnell Glacier

Heading down from Grinnell Glacier - Grinnell Lake in the foreground, Josephine Lake in the middle, Swiftcurrent Lake in the background. Our hike took us back to the third lake...it was a long one!

On our way down from Grinnell Glacier