Our Camping Adventure - Virginia to Alaska
Tuesday, 7/25 – We have returned to our Alaskan Adventure. We leave tomorrow for Canada so we today we decided to go on one long hike through the north east section of Glacier National Park. We took the Going to the Sun Road through Glacier to get to Many Glaciers. We drove this road with our friends last week but that was in a Toyota Corolla. In our Big Red Truck (Ford F250) there was minimal distance between us and oncoming traffic on some of the narrow turns. But we made it through unscathed. We took the Iceberg Lake Trail hike, which is a 10 mile round trip hike to a beautiful glacier lake that, due to the elevation and being in the shade of the mountains, has icebergs floating on it year round. It was a strenuous hike up 1190 ft to the lake. The good thing about that is the return was all downhill. We enjoyed eating our lunch while taking in the scenery of beautiful water, icebergs, and looking at the 3,000 vertical walls of stone surrounding 3 sides of the lake. At the beginning of the hike we saw a grizzly bear eating his lunch of berries from bushes along the side of the trail. There were several of us together and we did not approach him. He took no notice of us and was content to continue with his meal. We also saw spruce grouse and on the return through the park we saw long horned sheep. All in all it was a good day for seeing wildlife as well as nature. We highly recommend this hike if you are ever in Glacier National Park. Tomorrow we head to Canada and Banff National Park.
Bette Donaldson
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16 Apr 2020
2017 Alaska adventure - Glacier Park Montana part 2
July 25, 2017
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Glacier National Park
Tuesday, 7/25 – We have returned to our Alaskan Adventure. We leave tomorrow for Canada so we today we decided to go on one long hike through the north east section of Glacier National Park. We took the Going to the Sun Road through Glacier to get to Many Glaciers. We drove this road with our friends last week but that was in a Toyota Corolla. In our Big Red Truck (Ford F250) there was minimal distance between us and oncoming traffic on some of the narrow turns. But we made it through unscathed. We took the Iceberg Lake Trail hike, which is a 10 mile round trip hike to a beautiful glacier lake that, due to the elevation and being in the shade of the mountains, has icebergs floating on it year round. It was a strenuous hike up 1190 ft to the lake. The good thing about that is the return was all downhill. We enjoyed eating our lunch while taking in the scenery of beautiful water, icebergs, and looking at the 3,000 vertical walls of stone surrounding 3 sides of the lake. At the beginning of the hike we saw a grizzly bear eating his lunch of berries from bushes along the side of the trail. There were several of us together and we did not approach him. He took no notice of us and was content to continue with his meal. We also saw spruce grouse and on the return through the park we saw long horned sheep. All in all it was a good day for seeing wildlife as well as nature. We highly recommend this hike if you are ever in Glacier National Park. Tomorrow we head to Canada and Banff National Park.
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2017 Alaska adventure - Virginia to Pennsylvania
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2017 Alaska adventure - Pennsylvania to Michigan
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2017 Alaska Adventure - Michigan
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2017 Alaska adventure - Michigan to Wisconsin
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2017 Alaska adventure - Wisconsin to South Dakota
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2017 Alaska adventure - South Dakota
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2017 Alaska adventure - South Dakota to Wyoming
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2017 Alaska adventure - Wyoming to Montana
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2017 Alaska adventure - Columbia Falls, Montana
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2017 Alaska adventure - Glacier Park Montana
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2017 Alaska adventure - Glacier Park Montana part 2
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2017 Alaska adventure - Glacier Park Montana to British Columbia, Canada
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2017 Alaska adventure - Banff National Park, British Columbia, Canada
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2017 Alaska adventure - Banff National Park, British Columbia, Canada
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2017 Alaska adventure - Banff to Grand Cache, Alberta, Canada
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2017 Alaska adventure - Grand Cache to Charlie Lake
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2017 Alaska adventure - Charlie Lake to Toad Lake
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2017 Alaska adventure - Toad Lake to Watson Lake, Yukon
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2017 Alaska adventure - Watson Lake, Yukon to Whitehorse Yukon
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2017 Alaska adventure - Whitehorse, Yukon to Tok, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Tok, Alaska to Valdez
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2017 Alaska adventure - Valdez Day 1
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2017 Alaska adventure - Valdez Day 2
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2017 Alaska adventure - Valdez, Alaska to Seward, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Seward Day 1
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2017 Alaska adventure - Seward Day 2
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2017 Alaska adventure - Seward, Alaska to Homer, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Homer, Alaska Day 1
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2017 Alaska adventure - Homer, Alaska Days 2 & 3
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2017 Alaska adventure - Homer, Alaska to Kenai, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Kenai, Alaska to Anchorage, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Anchorage, Alaska to Talkeetna, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Talkeetna, Alaska to Denali, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Denali, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Denali, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Denali, Alaska to Fairbanks, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Fairbanks, Alaska to Beaver Creek, Yukon
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2017 Alaska adventure - Beaver Creek, Yukon to Whitehorse, Yukon
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2017 Alaska adventure - Skagway, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure - Whitehorse, Yukon to Iskut, British Columbia
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2017 Alaska adventure - Iskut, British Columbia to Hyder, Alaska
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2017 Alaska adventure -Hyder, Alaska to Fort Fraser, BC
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2017 Alaska adventure -British Columbia to Omak, Washington
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2017 Alaska adventure -Omak, Washington to Culver, Oregon
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2017 Alaska adventure - Culver, Oregon to Caldwell, Idaho
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2017 Alaska adventure - Caldwell, Idaho to Lava Hot Springs, Idaho
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2017 Alaska adventure - Lava Hot Springs, Idaho to Laramie, Wyoming
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2017 Alaska adventure - Beat feet back to Virginia
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