My human parents and I are staying in Whitefish, MT for the next two nights, while we explore the park. Today we drove about thirty minutes to the park, stopped at the Apgar visitors center to get oriented, then took a little hike to Apgar Village at the end of Lake McDonald. I met many new people that I could befriend, and on the way back we met six young couples that stopped to say "hi" and pet me. One of them had on a "Brockport" t-shirt and Mom asked them if they were from Brockport, NY? They said, No, they were from Greece, NY near Rochester. We told them we were from Honeoye Falls and they were all excited. One of the girls said, "How ironic, we are nearly 5,000 miles from home and we meet people from home here in Glacier".
As we drove past the end of Lake McDonald we stopped to see McDonald Falls. Then we started up the "Road to the Sun" where we passed through a tunnel blasted right through the side of the mountain.
The road is very steep and narrow, which made both Dad (who has an aversion to heights) and Mom very nervous. There were deadly drop-offs of more than 1,000 feet in many places and neither Dad nor Mom felt safe. As we went up, up, up we could see the glaciers at the top of the highest mountain peaks.
Yep, those are glaciers on those mountains in the distance. We could see them better as we got closer and higher up. Notice the Lodge Pole Pines in the foreground. They grow up to 80-90 ft high and only have branches near the top.
This is Heaven's Peak at 8,987 feet. Way up here the glaciers are much easier to see.
Tomorrow we plan to do some hiking. Wish us luck!😆
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