Showing posts with label mountains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mountains. Show all posts

Saturday, November 27, 2010

sooc #25 Scary-cool!

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I was surprised at how narrow the road (Going to the Sun Road - neat name too!) is going through Glacier National Park.  This is actually one of the wider places, lol.  There are a few tunnels, one lane, with traffic lights allowing one side through at a time.  Our first day there we had a gorgeous sky!

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The next day, cloudy - was supposed to rain all day but we stayed dry most of the day.

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I think it would be scary-cool to travel the road on a motorcycle!

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But when we pulled over to take a peek I was more than a little nervous - look how close he parked me to the edge!  I was a little scared I would get dizzy and topple over, lol.

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And it's a loooooong way down! Personally I loved that there weren't rails trapping us back, we were able to feel the thrill - but I was surprised at the lack of rails.

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Views from the car

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First time we've seen such a large sign for a geocache, lol. One side read, "Stop at. . .", the other side read, "Thanks for stopping at. . ."

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Shortly after the cache we made it to the entrance of Glacier National Park. Snapped a quick shot with the point and shoot and kept snapping while we drove the road in the park, checking out places we might want to stop and walk the next day.

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We still had to find a campsite and stuff for dinner etc so we had limited time to explore when we got there.  But it worked out well checking things out via car.  It was great listening to the owls above us while we sat by our fire in the dark and watching the bats flitting around overhead. Very nice night!

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