Today was our first day in Glacier with Clark and Soren. Swathi, Mani, Sruthi and Meera went to another part of the park that did not require a ticket for the going-to-the-sun road. We’ve been trying for days to get tickets for the going-to-the-sun road. The process is crazy! You have to be online at exactly 8AM and try repeatedly to purchase one of the 365 tickets that’s available. Because so many people are trying to do the same thing at 8 AM, you get error message after error message as you try over and over again to get through. Amazingly, Lily got us a ticket on her very first try. But Clark, Swathi and her family didn’t have the same luck, so only one vehicle was able to go up the sun-road. Fortunately Swathi scored aa ticket the very next day!
The first thing we did was hike a mile up the loop trail and then a mile back. We would have done more the the mosquitos were super intense! All-in-all, I’m proud of the kids for enduring as long as they did. As I sit here on the ride home catching up on blogs, I’m still scratching various mosquito bites that I got in Montano.
After the Loop hike, we continued up the going-to-the-sun road, which is one of the most incredible drives I’ve every been on in my life. It was so so so pretty. We stopped at a nice area for the kids to play in a stream.
We also stopped to check out some snow by the side of the road.
At the top, we scored a parking spot at the visitor’s center at the top, which was not easy, as Glacier was so so so crowded, and parking was a consistent challenge.
The hike at the top (Hidden Lake trail) was absolutely stunning. It was a boardwalk that occasionally went through snow. Mary and Clarissa were in sandals and their feet got very cold so we didn’t make it to the lake overlook, however, the trail, was absolutely gorgeous.
Also, here are some cute baby goats we saw on the ride home:
At the end of the day, we went to a delicious restaurant Clark found. I ate an insanely spicy bowl of Pisole.
