Saturday, July 10, 2010

Yellowstone






Yesterday we spent our last day in Glacier by taking the road less traveled. We traveled on a dirt park road to a remote lake called Bowden Lake.Before entering the Park we stopped at Polebridge. The town consisted of a postal drop, store and bakery all in the same primitive building. It was packed with hikers getting a sandwich on freshly baked bread and pastries of all kinds. Tom and I got a pastry as we had packed a lunch. The fruit pastry was wonderful.
We then took off on this road which was only 6 miles long, but the further we went the more certain I was that we were having an adventure. There was no place big enough to turn around and meeting another car was almost impossible. One car had to back up to a tiny bit widder spot. Anyway 6 miles and 45 minutes later we arrived at the most beautiful lake, as you will see if my pictures load.We had our lunch sitting on one of those big logs.
As for the rest of the story, we are now in Yellowstone in a great camping spot. Fortunately we called yesterday for a reservation. The parks are all full as are most campsites. Ours is full as well.
Tom drove us to the northeast entrance to the Park after we quickly set up the camper. Our campsite is at the north entrance. We ate our fried chicken and potato salad in the car watching a large herd of buffalo feeding. Some of them were actually in the road
You will see from the pictures, that we saw buffalo, antelope, elk and two grisly bears in the distance. If you enlarge the picture, you can see they are really bears.

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