Dan & Annie's
Summer Adventure 2006

July 14th, 2006:

Today was our big hike in Glacier National Park. We started at Logan’s Pass on the Continental Divide

and hiked along the side of the mountains, looking down into the most gorgeous scenery imaginable.

Views like this were everywhere you looked:

The trail started out about six feet wide. On the right was a sheer rock face straight up for hundreds of feet.

On the left it was worse, because it was straight DOWN hundreds of feet!

The trail eventually opened up to where it was a little less scary:

And along the way we met Mountain Goats, like these:

We stopped on the edge of a snowfield for a break:

Dan pretended he was jumping into the couloirs with his skis on:

Annie pointing up to where we’re headed – the pass between those mountain peaks:

About 8 miles in the hike changed dramatically. We now had to climb 1,000 feet up in six tenth’s of a mile,

to an elevation of 8,000 feet and the Continental Divide once again.

Here’s what the trail looked like at this point:

And here’s what you find for wildlife up here – Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep:

As we approach the pass:

And the view from the top of the pass, looking over to the glacier on the other side:

That snowfield behind me drops 2,000 feet to the frozen glacier below:

Here’s Annie on top of the world:

The hike back out was torture. The shortest route was 4 miles, with a drop in elevation of 3,800 feet.

Our legs, our knees, and our feet were killing us.

By the time we finished we had hiked 13 miles in all, and were very glad to catch the last hiker

shuttle of the day back to our camper and a couple of very cold beers.

We’re leaving the park tomorrow to continue our journey west, towards Idaho next.

That’s all for now. Sorry about all the pictures this time, but if you were here to see this, you’d understand.

Dan & Annie

July 14^th, 2006

PS. That lazy no-good bike of Joe’s decided to stay home in the camper today,

instead of braving the mountains with us real adventurers! Maybe I’ll send it back

to NH if it doesn’t do something exciting in the next few days.