Going to the Sun Road - Up is good - Down is Bad!

They say you have to experience this to believe it - well - experience can be a scary thing. This road is literally just tacked to the side of a mountain and you are a very long way up. Whats even scarier is they are doing road works halfway up and for a while you are driving along a one lane stretch with the other lane clearly missing or under construction.

Oh, the scenery - the views - well, the road is impressive - somebody with a lot of imagination got it up through that pass. Speaking of the pass - it was a balmy 80 degree F most of the way - then it dropped to 70 as we went through the snow walls to get to the top of Logans Pass.

So that was fun to be in your plastic crocs with the kids in t-shirts playing with walls of snow. We all put our hand print in the snow - as it was a veritable snow graffitti wall up at the information center at the top of the pass.

Really wanted to see moose - but not too be. Saw a couple of wolves in the meadows down the bottom before you get to St Marys. So that is another animal to add to our "seen in the wild" list.

Lots of ground squirrels running around up the top out the windows of the information center too. We got the kids National Park Passports stamped and got a few souveniers - gotta love a NP shop!

It was a long day. Leaving from Kalispell late (at about 11.00) got to West Glacier within 30 mins - stopped off and did the Trail of the Ceders - which had a nice stream, boardwalks - great mossy forest with giant trees for "magic forest" photos with the kids. Then it took over an hour - maybe almost 2hours to get to Logans pass - with a 20min delay with the road works.

We did the circuit - rather than driving back up and over again. The driver (with her fear of heights) had had enough doing it once! Our big fat butt on our truck (we have dual wheels at the back) made some of the road very narrow indeed. So we drove out through St Mary - then past some beautiful rolling hill country onto East Glacier - then back to West Glacier and home to the camper in Kalispell by 10.30pm - just as it got dark.



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