We have had so many cloudy nights this entire winter, I was starting to wonder what a star filled sky looked like. On Friday we had one of our first clear nights so we headed up to Glacier…
Star Trails…
Big Dipper over Lake McDonald…
Clear night, clear water…
Belton Bridge lit up by the moon…
The view from the bridge…
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Seems like forever since I have been on here! Life is just crazy busy but going well here. It seems like winter has been oh, so very long this year. Perhaps it because it’s because we haven’t seen the sun in what seems like forever. No big dips in temperature, which has been great for the seep and other outside animals.
Last weekend the sun finally came out, so we took the boys and Emma up to the Park to do some snowshoeing…
Reflection on Lake McDonald…
As you can see, part of Lake McDonald was glass smooth and the mountains reflected beautifully…
Where the road is closed off for the winter and people are allowed to snowshoe and cross country ski…
Walking down the trail with their snowshoes…
Dad helping put on snowshoes…
Hayden running with his…
The little group of snowshoers…
Wore out…
The little girl and her daddy…
Running Fast…
Sled Ride…
At our destination…
The walk back out…
Meeting a cross country skier…
Sunset that evening…
Beautiful way to spend a day…
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A beautiful, misty, autumn lake shore…
Lake McDonald…
Saturday night we received a bit of rain and awoke to smoke-free skies. Sunday afternoon we took a drive to through Glacier Park.
Watching the storm clouds roll-in on Avalanche Creek…
Clouds rolling across the valley on Going-to-the-Sun Road…
Soot from the Reynolds Creek Fire, running off in the rain onto some red rocks..
A quick rainbow over St. Mary’s Lake…
A black bear crossing the road in Many Glacier in the rain…
We ended up enjoying our day in the rain. Normally, we would have been a bit bummed to spend the day in the rain but with the wildland fires and evacuations going on, smokey suffocating skies and how badly we need the rain this year, it really was a great day. Kind of funny how a different perspective on things can change an attitude. Skies have been without smoke all week, even though we still have the majority of the fires burning and we are suppose to be getting more rain, maybe even some snow in higher elevations throughout the weekend. 🙂
Our crew headed to Many Glaciers this past weekend. We ended up hitting a pointy rock, popping a tire and having a flat, then after changing the tire and making it the rest of the way to Many Glacier it started to pour buckets and didn’t see any wildlife and couldn’t even get out of the car without getting soaked, so no hikes. We decided we would head back home and then the kids ended up getting hungry, so we stopped a ways away in Two Medicine. It was just cloudy there and we were able to enjoy a nice little picnic and do a little hiking and spotted many wildflowers and even a black bear.
At Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park…
On our little walk we discovered these gems. A lot of these I’m not sure what they are… …
A big, fat Bumbler…
A Fairy Slipper, Calypso bulbosa…
Western Virgin’s Bower… Clematis occidentalis 
At the end of the hike was Running Eagle Falls, running at full bore. Normally it’s just pouring out the cave in the middle of the falls…
Crossing the bridge…
Holding daddy’s hand…
The kids showing off their heart-shaped rocks…
We also spotted a Black Bear…
Dancing Aspens…
Lots of Shooting Stars..
More Blue wildflowers…
Cheers to long spring days spent in beautiful places…
On Wednesday we had a blue-sky day and we couldn’t stand to stay in the house any longer so we loaded up the Suburban and headed up to the park for a bit…
Stunning mountains….
Playing in the snow…
Beautiful crescent moon with the stars starting to appear and the sunset starting to fade…
This moose calf pauses after a drink at one of the lakes in Glacier Park…
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The sun sinking down and throwing some great light on the surrounding mountains while we hike down on Logan Pass with our big brood…
Our hike was cut a little short when we saw this big guy coming down the mountain…
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