Emboldened by the success of my trips to Logan Pass and the cliff-hugging trip to Red Rock Canyon in Waterton I decided to take Highway 49 to Essex today. The route there was on the outside of the roadway. Many areas had just been cleared of rockslides and the pavement was missing from sections of roads that had been washed away. Some areas of road were sunken in and other's raised so that one had the effect of climbing up and down on a roller coaster. The views were incredible, when I dared to look!
At the end of 49 I turned toward the ranger station at Two Medicine. ( I love my "old people's pass". It is so nice to hand over my Golden Age card to a ranger and enter parks free. It has also provided half price camping at federal and state campgrounds across the U.S.) Clark and I walked along Two Medicine Lake for a while, enjoying the scenery and warm breeze.
After Two Medicine we went to East Glacier to fill up with gas. Ponds along the way were filled with ducks, including many buffleheads, my favorite duck. The signs for huckleberry shakes and huckleberry pie were tempting but we drove on. I wanted to be sure to be back in time to do some laundry before the LSU baseball game so we turned back. Sixty miles home on the boring route on Highways 2 and 89 through Browning or 43 very exciting miles back over Highway 49. Hmmmm, which should I choose?
4 comments:
More gorgeous pictures. You and Clark are having quite an adventure. So he is not grumbling as much now?
Cheryl, when I look in the rear view mirror I see the silly dog looking at me with the white's of his eyes showing. He does not like heights or my driving, one of the two.
Is it the camera, or is the water that blue? gorgeous!
Theresa, the water and the sky are really that blue. The air is so clean here that the sky is a deep clear blue. The water in the lake on the west side of the mountains is a gorgeous green from glacier runoff.
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