Day 68, Wednesday, September 13, 2006
50 this morning in Whitefish. Not quite so cold as yesterday. It's overcast today and rain is forcast for the next several days with mountain snow predicted for the weekend. Just hope we can see some of Glacier National Park before "winter" arrives here. Still at the State Park this morning waiting to go into Kalispell (about 14 miles south) for a 1:00pm appointment to service the motor home. Time for a 25K check-up and oil change. Actually have put over 26,000 miles on the motor home since taking delivery last October - and over 9,000 on this trip alone. Got to go, more later. Arrived at truck service center early (11:00 am) and they got me in. Drove on to Glacier National Park but vehicles over 21 feet (we are 30 feet) can only go about 19 miles into the park on Going To The Sun Road. We drove as far as we could then did the turn-a-round. Unless backpacking or hiking going to the sun road is the only reason to go to Glacier. We are not serious backpackers plus we can't leave the dogs so we drove out and around the park and headed south to Great Falls for the night at an R V Park. As we drove out of Glacier we went through a lot of smoke but saw no fire. Later we learned that a big forest fire had swept through the far end of the park. Bad weather is supposed to be moving in the next few days including snow and sub-freezing temperatures so our plans to stay close to the mountains around Yellowstone and The Tetons may change by tomorrow. We do not have a great internet connection here so pictures will not get uploaded before we leave.
This is just here for comparison purposes. It actually should be the last picture here of the three. Shortly out of Glacier Park the mountains were behind us.
Lake McDonald inside Glacier Park
50 this morning in Whitefish. Not quite so cold as yesterday. It's overcast today and rain is forcast for the next several days with mountain snow predicted for the weekend. Just hope we can see some of Glacier National Park before "winter" arrives here. Still at the State Park this morning waiting to go into Kalispell (about 14 miles south) for a 1:00pm appointment to service the motor home. Time for a 25K check-up and oil change. Actually have put over 26,000 miles on the motor home since taking delivery last October - and over 9,000 on this trip alone. Got to go, more later. Arrived at truck service center early (11:00 am) and they got me in. Drove on to Glacier National Park but vehicles over 21 feet (we are 30 feet) can only go about 19 miles into the park on Going To The Sun Road. We drove as far as we could then did the turn-a-round. Unless backpacking or hiking going to the sun road is the only reason to go to Glacier. We are not serious backpackers plus we can't leave the dogs so we drove out and around the park and headed south to Great Falls for the night at an R V Park. As we drove out of Glacier we went through a lot of smoke but saw no fire. Later we learned that a big forest fire had swept through the far end of the park. Bad weather is supposed to be moving in the next few days including snow and sub-freezing temperatures so our plans to stay close to the mountains around Yellowstone and The Tetons may change by tomorrow. We do not have a great internet connection here so pictures will not get uploaded before we leave.
This is just here for comparison purposes. It actually should be the last picture here of the three. Shortly out of Glacier Park the mountains were behind us.
Lake McDonald inside Glacier Park
Going To The Sun Road. We were only allowed to go 16 of the 63 miles it runs through the Park due to motor home restrictions
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