2021-09-12 Many Glaciers

Good golly it’s still dark outside and we’re leaving for a hike. Soon we will be leaving at four in the morning for a hike or worse camping out and then hiking.

We drove to Many Glacier for the 8:30 boat ride on the Glacier Park Boat. The boat ride involved a boat ride on Swift Current Lake, a 1/4 hike to another boat ( try to trot that with a group following you) and then a boat ride on Lake Josephine. Now you are ready to hike.

At this point, the group split. Jerry went for the Grinnell Hike while the other three went to Grinnell Lake. Jerry’s hike was 3 plus miles. Unfortunately, Jerry did not make it to the end.

HHR: Jerry, what happened?

Jerry: Well, I was almost there. It had been a grueling uphill 3 miles. I asked someone coming down how much further? They told me it would be another 1/2 mile and that the hard part was still to come. There were no bathrooms and still uphill. I knew the other three were frolicking around and just thought “I don’t need to go there”.

Larry: We weren’t really frolicking. Yes, we ate our lunch at the Many Glacier Hotel lobby while waiting for Jerry but I had a very hard time staying awake.

Joyce: Yes, and it was not easy to find the pit toilet on the trail. We had to spend a few minutes looking.

Debbie: I had a wildlife incident. I had nuts in my backpack and a chipmunk smelled it. He kept stalking me. He tried to get to me from the right and the left. When I sat on a tree root, he tried to get under my legs to lunge at my backpack.

Larry: The lake we saw was awesome. It was turquoise blue. Remember though, I did get lost in the parking lot. Debbie had to come and find me.

The day ended sitting in the parking lot of one of the three open restaurants, “The Rising Sun” waiting for our order to be called.

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