September 3, 2010 Many Glacier

This park is so amazing, so many sides to it and so many personalities. Our last day here was at Many Glacier. On our way in we had our only bear spotting.

There is another historic lodge here and some great hiking trails. My goal when leaving home was to hike to the Grinnel Glacier. My knee mishap on the Peace Hike put an end to that, but we hiked the nature trail around Swiftwater Lake and then took the boats, one across Swiftwater Lake, followed by a quarter mile uphill, slight downhill to the next boat on Josephine Lake that took us to the point where we could hike to Grinnel Lake, which we did. It was a beautiful day. Grinnel Lake was marvelous-the beautiful glacial color. Ground squirrels greeted us as we sat on a log and marveled at the scene.

As we boarded the boat on Lake Josephine we saw a female moose and her calf wading in the lake. It was nice to see them since we have been know to be moose deterrents. A great day as our final day in the park.