Whitefish lay straight ahead. The RAV-4 which had been so meticulously packed two days ago was already showing signs of repeated rummaging for cameras or yellow Gatorades or swimsuits. It cruised along the built-up section of the Flathead Valley, past the lodges and motels and hotels of Kalispell. I was practically vibrating with excitement over …
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Glacier National Park: Foys Lake Overlook
48 hours into our time in Montana, Elizabeth and I had seen many of the biospheres that the state had to offer. There had been the flat Big Sky Country, the rolling High Plains, the rugged granite-covered mountains, and the heavily wooded slopes. Herron Park south of Kalispell made an entirely new one. There were …
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West Virginia Weekend: Take Me Home
It was still cold and grey. I’d had some hope that maybe yesterday’s awful weather would break this morning, and we’d get a brilliant late-fall sunny day in the central Appalachians. As it was, it appeared that on this Sunday I would have to settle for “at least it’s not raining like it was yesterday”. …
Glacier National Park: Flathead Valley
One moment, twilight was spilling forth brilliant oranges and pinks across the northern Montana sky. The next, it was morning and early sun rays were lighting up those same mountains golden-green. At least that’s how it seemed to me following a wonderful night of sleep at the Belton Chalet. You can easily overexert yourself on …
West Virginia Weekend: Country Roads
Absolutely soaked. That was the only way to describe our status in the parking garage at WVU’s medical center. My sweatshirt was damp, my sweatpants were damp, and I was cold to boot. Winston started the car and I stripped down to shorts and a t-shirt (mercifully somewhat dry so that I could also wipe …
Glacier National Park: Apgar, West Glacier
After most of a good, hard day, Elizabeth and I had been delivered to the end of Going-to-the-Sun Road. Apgar Village lies in the far southwestern corner of the park, where McDonald Creek exits Lake McDonald and begins its terminal sprint down toward the Flathead River along US-2. This is the commercial side of the …
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Glacier National Park: Lake McDonald
When you are with someone long enough, you are able to interpret context clues much more easily. With that said, you don’t need to be an expert at Elizabeth Studies to know when she’s hungry. My lovely fiancee has a way of letting people know. And as we got back into our RAV4 on the …
West Virginia Weekend: The Game
I wasn’t super optimistic when my alarm went off on the morning of November 12. It was 6:00 a.m and I was amid a group of notoriously heavy sleepers. Come to think of it, I could barely drag myself awake coming off of a string of midnight shifts. This was basically bedtime every day prior …
Glacier National Park: Avalanche Lake
Below me, Avalanche Creek boiled through its gorge. Obviously it was swollen with runoff, but I didn’t really expect there to be this much water in one of the little creeks way up in the mountains. It was quite loud. As a natural lover of creeks and rivers, I loved it with every fiber of …
Glacier National Park: Trail of the Cedars to Avalanche Creek Canyon
When the YouTube videos said that Glacier National Park was teeming with some of the greatest biodiversity in the United States, the videos were not lying. The previous night, we had stayed in the northeast corner of the park. That area had been referred to as a “desert”, but clearly it was just like the …
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