2007/06/28
Travel Days
June 26, 27 and 28
As we had booked campgrounds ahead at the major parks, we had a left a window of 2 nights between Craters of the Moon National Monument and Glacier National Park. If you didn't mind a really long day of driving you could do it in a day, we decided to give ourselves a break and take 3 days (2 nights).
The first day of driving was interesting as at one point we ended up in the middle of what appeared to be a "cattle drive". There were about 100 cattle on either side of the road and a few in the middle of the it, 4 cowboys on horses, several dogs and at least one guy in a pickup truck. We slowly picked our way through and unfortunately the person in charge of the camera (me - Frances) didn't managed to get any decent shots. When we stopped at a Bureau of Land Management park for lunch we liked it so much we found a campsite and spent the night.
On Day 2 we drove through some more of the beautiful Idaho countryside crossing into Montana at a mountain pass made famous by Lewis and Clark. After picking up groceries we stopped at a campground just outside of Missoula.
Day 3 saw us driving along Flathead Lake looking at tree after tree loaded with cherries --- this area produces all of Montana's cherries. Shortly after leaving the Flathead Lake area we started to the mountains of Glacier National Park. After landing at the RV park we headed to Hungry Horse Dam. This dam was the forth largest and fourth tallest in the world when it was built in 1953.
Our campsite at the Bureau of Land Management campground backed onto the Salmon River. As the current was strong, Zaph remained on a leash when he went in for a quick dip.
This Yellow Warbler was singing his heart out in the campsite next to ours.
The Hungry Horse Dam. If you look closely you can see the water on the top side of the dam.
As we had booked campgrounds ahead at the major parks, we had a left a window of 2 nights between Craters of the Moon National Monument and Glacier National Park. If you didn't mind a really long day of driving you could do it in a day, we decided to give ourselves a break and take 3 days (2 nights).
The first day of driving was interesting as at one point we ended up in the middle of what appeared to be a "cattle drive". There were about 100 cattle on either side of the road and a few in the middle of the it, 4 cowboys on horses, several dogs and at least one guy in a pickup truck. We slowly picked our way through and unfortunately the person in charge of the camera (me - Frances) didn't managed to get any decent shots. When we stopped at a Bureau of Land Management park for lunch we liked it so much we found a campsite and spent the night.
On Day 2 we drove through some more of the beautiful Idaho countryside crossing into Montana at a mountain pass made famous by Lewis and Clark. After picking up groceries we stopped at a campground just outside of Missoula.
Day 3 saw us driving along Flathead Lake looking at tree after tree loaded with cherries --- this area produces all of Montana's cherries. Shortly after leaving the Flathead Lake area we started to the mountains of Glacier National Park. After landing at the RV park we headed to Hungry Horse Dam. This dam was the forth largest and fourth tallest in the world when it was built in 1953.
Our campsite at the Bureau of Land Management campground backed onto the Salmon River. As the current was strong, Zaph remained on a leash when he went in for a quick dip.
This Yellow Warbler was singing his heart out in the campsite next to ours.
The Hungry Horse Dam. If you look closely you can see the water on the top side of the dam.
