Glaciers...finally

Finding a glacier within Glacier National Park is not quite as hard as finding a Sasquatch, but not by much. In the interests of seeing a glacier, we drove for two hours across the park, took a boat over a lake, hiked over a hill to another boat, which took us across another lake at which we could finally barely see a glacier, which in fact looks just like a bunch of snow. Also, they're all going to disappear by 2020. So for glaciers, go elsewhere, to Greenland or Antarctica perhaps. The party line at Glacier Park is now that you go because the landscape was formed by glaciers. But at that rate, you may as well visit the Great Lakes, or really any of the northern tier states, whose landscapes were formed by glaciers as well.

Lynn wanted the drive across the park, and had a good deal of fun doing so, though she remarked that our turbo Volvo would be been much more fun that the cargo carrier laden minivan.

The highlight of the day actually was splashing around in the glacial lakes and streams. Not one normally for cold water, after a hike it was pretty refreshing. There was still snow on the ground where we were hiking, and a few snowballs were thrown, none to much effect.

We saw the one megafauna that we had been missing in our trip, which splashed into the lake where we were waiting for the boat and posed for some spectacular pics. The momma moose apparently had some babies following that we didn't get to see.

The other megafauna that we had already seen was the bighorn sheep. We caught this one in the middle of urinating on the road for a shockingly long time, looking at us with more intent than you might ascribe to such a creature.

We reupped our campsite for one more night in preparation for the long drive to the Bay area to visit my brother's family.