Glacier National Park

Our original plan was to camp at Glacier National Park, but when we found out that it had been down in the 20's at night we changed our minds and booked a hotel in Whitefish instead.

We headed to the West side of the park and nearly immediately saw a huge black bear trying to get berries out of a tree right by the road! We tried to get a picture but couldn't get the lens on the camera fast enough before it ran into the woods on the other side of the road. We headed up the road to Avalanche Creek and stopped for a beautiful hike to Avalanche Lake. We were inspired not only by the hike's beauty, but also by how much the lake itself reminded us of our own familiar alpine lakes in the Cascades. We are so looking forward to seeing them again soon!

On our way back down we stopped by the Lake McDonald Lodge to catch a boat ride, only to find it was booked for the last two trips. So instead we decided to have a late lunch on the shoreside. We attemped to skip rocks on the water...turns out we aren't so very good at that...especially Margaret, so instead we just threw rocks in the water...tried to skip some again, and went back to just throwing them in.

On Monday we went through the East side of the park and saw a mountain goat! We went through Many Glacier, up to Logan's Pass and hiked up to the Hidden Lake Outlook, stunning!

For dinner we went to Pescado Blanco, which means "Whitefish" in spanish. I don't know what it is about Mexican food, but when done with 'fusion' cuisine, it always turns out so well! This was "Gourmet Mountain Mexican", so they had elk tacos, and bison enchilladas. It was SO SO good, truely the tastiest meal that we have had in a restaurant on our entire trip.