This was our last day in Glacier and really it was just a check-out day from our AirBNB, but our next stop was “only” three hours away from the East side of the park (see we’ve driven so far and long, that three hours feels like nothing!), so we decided to attempt to see one last area of the park after leaving our AirBNB. We headed off to Many Glacier and unfortunately the entrance was closed because all parking was all full. Major bummer!
We thought about walking in to a short hike, so Doug chatted with the ranger and found out three reasons why we should not do that particular trail: 1) it goes straight up about 2000 feet in elevation, 2) thunderclouds were rolling in and 3) (and most importantly) they had closed the trail for aggressive bear activity in the area. Ugh!!! We parked on the side of the road and had our picnic lunch with the cousins, all gave hugs (and sweet Penn Rye again shed tears…killer) and parted ways. Well, for a minute, we ended up all pulling off a minute later for a couple of final pictures. Even if we couldn’t go into the Many Glacier area, we could see a bit of it including the Grinnell Glacier. I’ll take it!
Goodbye Glacier, I hope we get to return someday to do more hiking and exploration.
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