Our last day in the Glacier National Park area we decided to keep pretty lazy and just stick around the Hungry Horse area. I worked in the morning, Steph made more travel plans and the kids read and vegged out. Later in the morning we went on an excursion to check out near by Lion Lake and the Hungry Horse reservoir. While at the reservoir we took a lot of dam pictures as this thing was pretty impressive…its the 10th tallest dam in the US! Looking over the edge made my tail bone hurt!!
Glacier NP
East side
As we talked to several rangers on the west side of Glacier NP they all said that it was very much worth it to make the long drive around to see the east side of the park. Of course, there are a few months of the year you can get there in 50 miles on Going to the Sun road, but that was closed so we had to go around. While it was a long way to drive around we figured since we’ve come this far we might as well check out the other side. We packed a lunch, piled in the truck (even Sheba got to come along) and we headed off.
Not going to the sun
When in Glacier National Park you HAVE to drive Going to the Sun road between the east and west sides of the park. Unless, of course, its closed. Apparently we are still too early in the season and the road is still being cleared of snow. While our timing was poor for that aspect of the park we showed up on a year of mass bear grass blooms! Bear grass (xerophyllum tenax) is a common wildflower in the park but massive blooms like they are having this summer are said to occur only every 5-10 years!
