Cynz Travel Blog

We thought we were going back to Going to the Sun Road because it was the first day back in Glacier for our friends, Trish and John.  But Trish asked us if we would mind going back to Polebridge and exploring the area west of Glacier National Park.  They always give us a different perspective and find things that Curtis and I seem to miss. So we headed back to the dirt roads toward Polebridge.  Trish really enjoyed the ride out.  She loves taking pictures of nature and scenery.  She kept pointing things out like a beaver dam, birds that are indigenous to Montana and the little varmints that kept trying to get run over on the road.  We even saw some mule deer that we thought were moose initially.  The sky was unbelievably blue and gorgeous!   Curtis and I found our Montana home! Mule deer above Remember the old kids' song "We're going on a bear hunt?"   Well, John wanted to find Hidden Meadow to see if we could spot some moose and

Curtis and I were planning to hike to Grinnell Glacier and Lake but the trailhead is in Many Glacier which is two hours drive away.  I know Curtis was really disappointed that we weren't doing an 11 mile hike into the glacier area.  We decided we would just drive Going to the Sun Road again and maybe do one of the hikes along the way. I took videos of the drive to catch the majestic views that we were enjoying.  There was so much to photograph.  I just kept clicking while I was videotaping.  You can see the U-Shapes of the valleys in some of the pictures where the glaciers had carved them out.  You can also see the road we were driving on.  The red buses were really cool.  I think you can buy tickets to ride them all day on Going to the Sun Road if you don't want to mess with trying to park.  Parking can be a huge problem.  We decided to hike down to St. Mary's Falls which isn't that long.  Unfortunately, it is straight down hill.  We also