Well, we made it! We were trying to reach Glacier National Park by June 27th and we did it. The web site says the "Going to the Sun" road was finally opened on June 24th, where road crews removed up to thirty feet of snow accumulation from the previous winter. Wow, thirty feet, that's a lot of snow! Dad and Mom and I are staying in a nice house outside of the park for the next 3 days in Whitefish, MT.
On the way there we stopped at the National Bison Range preserve and drove through a one-way loop road that took us up and over some mountains that made Dad nervous because there were steep drop-offs and no guard rails on a very narrow dirt road. We saw several Bison, Elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer and lots of magpies (birds). Here is a pile of Elk antlers I saw at the visitor's center.
When we arrived at the top we were up so high we were above the clouds.
Mom took some great pictures of the wildlife we saw there, while I mostly watched from the car window. I only got out of the car a few times because there were signs saying there had been recent grizzly bear activity in the area.
Notice how the velvet on the Elk's antlers hasn't fallen off yet. That is because they just had 17 inches of snow less than three weeks ago out here.
The Bison hasn't completely shed his winter coat yet either. The people around here say there was no Spring this year. They went from Winter weather right into Summer weather.
The huge ears on the mule deer make it easy to identify, and there is no whitetail either, like on the white-tailed deer we have in the East.
Many of the prairie flowers are just starting to bloom, and it is almost July.
Tomorrow we start exploring Glacier National Park. I can't wait to see what new things we will see on our Great Adventure😄.
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