Today was an adventure.
We headed south from Radium Springs towards the U.S. Our plan was to drive the Going to the Sun
Road and explore along the way ~ We were wondering what we were going to do
during the day tomorrow before going to Waterton Lakes, Canada where we have a
reservation tomorrow night. Funny the
way things work out ~ took a couple of back roads thinking we had plenty of
time. When we got to the Canadian border
there was a bit of a backup ~ the Border Patrol on the US side were being very
thorough in their questioning of each car.
When it was finally our turn they asked how far north we had gone and
Larry told them just north of Jasper.
The guard’s next question was “Why?”
FORTUNATELY, Larry didn't give him the first answer he thought of!!!
After we finally got through customs we headed down to the
West Entrance of Glacier Park. We
noticed in quite a number of places that right next to the electrical lines
there were single poles with “platforms” on them ~ Larry thought they had put
them up for the large birds of prey to build their nests to keep them off the
electrical poles. The next one we came
to proved his point ~ There was a large nest with two Ospreys in the it.
On our drive south we had been watching the thunderheads
building up over the mountains and figured we’d probably have thunderstorms
tonight. The “Going to the Sun Road” is
51 miles long and before we had gone the first 10 miles we started getting rain
drops. By the time we were going up
Logan Pass on a NARROW, one lane each way, winding, twisting road we were in
the middle of a full fledged storm with thunder with huge flashes of
lightning. Logan Pass is where the road
crosses the Great Divide at 6,646 ft. So
as you can guess, no critters were out and the visibility wasn’t great ~ Saw
hints of lots of beautiful waterfalls and mountains. We’re staying at St Mary’s, the West entrance
to Glacier, this evening.
So tomorrow we are going to go up through Many Glaciers and
go back over Going to the Sun Road and see what we missed during the storm ~
then we head back to Canada.
More later . . .
L & P
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