Glacier Natonal Park -- Have been here for 5 days....Just Incredible !!

Blogging from Waterton Lakes, Alberta Canada... This is the first place since we arrived in the park where we have phone and modem contact.  Today it's 70 degrees with wind gusts to 55 mph!  We already moved from a lake frontage campsite to a site nearer to the mountains where the wind isn't so crazy.  Nice to have warmer temps, but we don't like the high winds.

We have absolutely fallen in love with these incredible mountains, lakes, waterfalls, and hiking trails.  We camped two nights at Two Medicine campground, then two nights at Many Glacier.  We took many hikes including a couple of 8+mile trails.  On all of these hikes, we experienced beautiful trails showing all of the Fall color.   Stops along the way including swinging bridges, magnificent waterfalls, and glacier fed lakes. 

The bears (both Grizzley and Black) knew we were coming as Ruthie would shout "Ahoy there mighty bear" and we would both attempt to sing songs but we realized we don't know enough of the words.  We did purchase and carry special bear repellant (pepper spray) as bear are a common occurrance.  Our only bear sighting was one evening while on a walk by the lake, we spotted a black bear across the river.  He stood up so we could take his picture, and we decided not to cross the bridge!

Tomorrow, we drive back to the U.S. and plan to camp at Apgar on the west side of Glacier NP.

Oh, and almost forgot....We're going out for dinner tonight.  Ruthie has been cooking just plain too good; but it's time for a night on the town.  All 5 shops and 3 restaurants.