We woke up to ice on the car (and some people's tents, but we were partially sheltered under a tree and stayed a bit more dry. A bit). It was COLD. And wet. But we got the heat running in the Jeep and packed up fast to get on our way to the "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone." It had been almost 10 years since I'd been to that part of Yellowstone, and as always it did not disappoint!!
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Cold, wet tents! Brrrr.
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| PC: Ally Miyazaki |
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| You guys. I really like my phone. |
We continued on our merry way and soon encountered snow. On the ground. It was really beautiful, but I was glad I was in my warm and cozy Jeep and not backpacking through the area!
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| We didn't see any wolves. :( But there's probably one somewhere in this picture. |
We made a quick stop at Mammoth Hot Springs before we hit the road to head to Glacier.
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| We were really glad we didn't have to wait in that line to enter the park!! |
We made a quick stop at Flathead Lake for dinner. It was stormy, so the water wasn't as clear as I'd hoped. We also discovered that we had set up the electric cooler wrong, and a bunch of food had gone bad. (It had gotten plugged in to the "heat" setting instead of the "cool" setting.) That was a serious bummer, but, c'est la vie. After that we only had a couple more hours of driving before we made it to Glacier!
We saw several little fawns on the side of the road, listened to some fabulous classic rock (I'm pretty sure Sirius put on Stevie Wonder just to cheer me up after the cooler situation), and a double rainbow - yes, all across the sky. We made it to our gorgeous campsite by Lake McDonald and managed to get our tent completely dry by the time we needed to go to bed. Yay!
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| Our first campfire of the trip! Yay! Thanks Brady! |
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