Early in the morning, we spotted a grey wolf running in the same vicinity where we saw the grizzly a couple of days ago. Probably won’t go hiking through there on this trip. Went into Kalispell for some shopping instead. First “big town” in a while and we managed to find everything we needed, including a couple of fishing lures that I used years ago in Yellowstone Lake with great success. These are made in Sheridan, WY and I have been looking for since we started the trip. We also found a store that carried a WA manufactured candy bar called “Mountain Bar”. These are only available in the northwest are good, really, really good.
Windy as the dickens last night, but decided to try to get in some photography time. It was frustrating, with everything blowing about but here goes . . .
Climbed a skinny, steep trail to this get these shots of the creek downhill from the Siyeh Pass trail. Cathy stayed near the trailhead and wound up keeping a couple of bighorn sheep from going up the narrow trail I was shooting from. She convinced them to go up the other side instead.
This is the view, looking across the road from the creek. Sun was getting low, placing this side of Logan Pass in the shade and temperatures drop rapidly with the lack of sunshine. We headed back to the camp. You can see the road, bottom center:
On the way back to camp, we crossed the St. Mary river on this stone arch bridge.
This is the view of St. Mary Lake, from the bridge at sunset.
Today, we woke up to a perfect “most of the” day so Cathy and I spent the morning on and near Logan Pass. She hiked the upper meadows, making it all the way up to the snow fields, and spent some time up close and personal with a marmot while enjoying the sunshine.
I rode my bicycle down the west side of the pass to the “Loop” then came back up and went down the east side, ending at the Gunsight Pass trailhead. The road was wet in some places and there were numerous metal grates for drainage. Waterfalls come down directly on the road in several locations so I had to slow down, but it was pretty cool looking over the edge, sometimes almost 1,000 ft. straight down. Got up to 45 mph on some of the steep downhill sections (speed limit 25 – whoops) and finally managed to use my GoPro for about 25 miles . . Captured both rides but I don’t know what to do with the video. It is too big to put on Facebook without editing (and I am not to that point yet). Maybe later in the journey.
It’s now about 1600, it’s raining, windy and we have thunderstorms. Go figure.
Travelling with the Schinglers 