Most folks don’t bother with spending much time on the east side of Glacier National Park–it takes a lot longer to get there, the west side is a lot more popular, you make the Going to the Sun drive and turn around at St. Mary’s Lake. We just spent 3 days on the east side camping in East Glacier and didn’t even bother with Going to the Sun Highway–I know, a travesty.
I worked for a month at the beginning of the summer in 1982 in East Glacier Lodge as a maid. We cleaned all the rooms in the lodge prior to opening the first of June. It was a great opportunity to go down memory lane the month before my life vectored into a completely new direction that has lead me to where I am today. My mother found out she had a brain tumor that June and asked me to return home to help her, which I gladly did. She died that July. I completely changed the direction I was heading after her death and this trip allowed me to relieve those former memories. No regrets, just memories…:)
Many Glacier Area: Saturday, July 28
We hiked around Swift Current Lake and Josephine Lake. We did NOT get up toe Grinnel Glacier, which we probably should have done as it is scheduled to be gone by 2030 with the current level of global warming. Not a political statement, just a fact based on science…
We did see a bear AFTER our hike, way up on the hillside above Many Glacier Lodge. But there were many a man armed with the holster version of bear spray! Pretty impressive! We had no bear spray or bear bells, but just managed to yammer on about our current plans for traveling to Canada to keep the bears away.
Two Medicine Lake Area: Sunday, July 29
We took the historic boat to the end of Two Medicine Lake and crammed in a 4 mile hike up to Two Medicine Falls and Upper Two Medicine Lake and returned in time to catch the next boat back! We even saw a moose in a pond just before Upper Two Medicine Lake and ran into a female mountain goat on the trail (no photo on her).
The Traveling Lounsburys 