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 …
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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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West Virginia Weekend: Day One
Last year, Elizabeth put together an epic birthday weekend for me: This year, I had to return the favor. Only a few problems. First of all, where to find the money? It didn’t necessarily help that I have a brand-new auto loan and rising expenses in the face of inflation. That one solved itself in …
Glacier National Park: Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Side
Holy shit. The Logan Creek valley of Glacier National Park suddenly opened up as we drove past the Logan Pass Visitor’s Center. The first thing I noticed was that this was all so *big*. The mountains were huge around us. The Garden Wall loomed on the right side of the valley. Miles and miles in …
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Glacier National Park: Logan Pass, Part One
Logan Pass is the stuff of legend. Somebody had the bold idea to take a cleft in the continental divide right at the terminus of the Garden Wall, and blast the artery of one of the world’s great national parks right into that cleft. And then someone got the idea to put an entire visitor’s …
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