Day 18: Enjoying Glacier

Happy 4th of July!  There really isn't much going on up here because of the firework ban because of how dry it is and the Forest fires happening in the surrounding areas. It was neat to be in Canada for Canada Day and the US for Independence Day though. 

We slept in which was wonderful not having to pack up and hit the road. We looked into taking a historic red bus tour but the shortest one was 3 hours and the thought of being in a car for that long didn't seem appealing. We also talked about putting our bikes on the free shuttle and then riding down again but we both kinda just wanted time off the bike and it doesn't seem fair to enjoy the ride without the sweat. 

So we ended up taking the free shuttle back up to Logan's Pass and hiking.  I was excited to see the views from a car since we whizzed by so fast yesterday. The bike is better than the car tour by far. We hiked to Hidden Lake overlook in hopes of seeing grizzlies. The rest of the trail to the lake was closed because of high activity with the bears there.

No bear sightings but lots of billy goats. 

Nothing says 4th of July like hiking through snow😉

Hidden Lake was quite beautiful!

Then we decided to hike the Highline trail. I should've guessed that me and Highline wouldn't mix since I am afraid of heights. We started and I was taking photos and enjoying it. I don't think I realized where I was and Mike was even impressed that I was taking photos and not holding onto the rail. But then I quickly realized where I was and held on and decided that we needed to turn back.

You can see Going-to-the-Sun road below. 

We were about to turn back and I went back to realize a billy goat and it's baby was following us on this super narrow way high up trail. And have you seen the horns on those things? 

Luckily I had eavesdropped on someone on the bus ride up and heard that if you just put your back into the mountain they will scurry on past. So that is what we did. Miguel was praying to not get a billy goat horn in his midsection. Momma walked on by. The baby waited back and then sprinted past us. Too cute. Then off the trail for us. 

The billy goats are past us. 

The valley below the highline. 

We took the shuttle back down and did a quick hike on the Trail of the Cedars, which is a temperate rainforest. It was perfect and there were haikus written all throughout the trail. 

Mike kept thinking he was a billy goat exploring everything. 

 

Not pictured is Mike trying to hop logs in the stream and him falling in. Billy goat failure. 

Then back to the lodge for dinner and drinks.