Glacier Redux

When the conference adjourned today at noon, Shawn came back to the lodge and picked me up for an afternoon of exploring the western boundary of Glacier.

Instead of stick to the more travelled route, we decided to take the backroads toward Canada. Most of our roads today were gravel -- the one pictured here is outside the park and one of the best we drove on.

We stopped at a couple interesting places along the way. The Home Ranch Bottoms is a catch all: bar, restaurant, cyber-cafe, and gift shop rolled into one.

The Polebridge Mercantile caters to hikers and back country campers. It has laundry and shower facilities for people who've had to do without for a while. For day-trippers like us, it has an excellent bakery and the obligatory gift shop.

The back roads in the park are mostly single track. Thankfully, we didn't meet many cars, though we saw our share of whitetail deer. It was obvious that the roads in the park were not well-travelled from the height of the weeds that had grown up in the middle of the track.