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Day 17: Glacier National Park

8/5/2023

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After picking up our rental car early in the morning, we headed into Glacier National Park. What an absolutely amazing place! Stunning and beautiful. The "Going-to-the-Sun-Road" is definitely not for the faint of heart. The narrow road was built into the mountain sides, with barely any guardrails, and it drops off steeply thousands of feet. I held onto my seat for dear life with white knuckles, not daring to look to my left. I had to cover the view with my hand so I would not panic. Everyone else enjoyed the ride. Cliff managed to get us safely to Logan Pass and back down the mountain. And, then all the way back to our campground on that same road. We were glad we had the smaller car as turns were extremely tight, the road was very narrow, and occasionally other drivers would swerve into our lane. Very scary.
We had planned to hike to Hidden Lake from Logan Pass today, but there was no parking. We tried multiple times and were not able to park. There are way too many people for the number of parking spaces.  In addition, as most people park their cars for hours as they go hiking, chances that someone will leave while waiting for a parking spot are slim; sometimes there were not even any spaces to pull over at the viewpoints. 
The sun did come out a bit, but it was still very hazy from the smoke. Unfortunately, many of my pictures did not turn out the way I had hoped. Nevertheless, seeing the scenery in person was beyond amazing!!

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Angela
8/7/2023 05:18:58 pm

Breathtaking! The rams are so cute!

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Silke Audinet
8/8/2023 10:54:01 pm

Glacier National Park is stunning, even with all the haze from the wildfire smoke! It takes your breath away!

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