We started with two white tail does in our camp this morning. Then we spent the day touring Glacier National Park on the Going to the Sun road, making many stops along the way. We first made a couple of stops to view the McDonald Falls. There was considerable construction on the west side of Logan Pass. The scenery was comparable to the Icefields Parkway in that it was most majestic. The highway itself is amazing with tight curves, steep grades, overhanging rocky cliffs and sheer drop offs with a new mountain vista around each curve. We hiked a total of seven miles today on three different hikes. The first was to Hidden Lake from the Logan Pass Visitors Center. There was beautiful scenery along the entire hike as well as the beautiful lake. As a bonus we also saw a marmot, two big horn sheep and numerous mountain goats. I think we got some great pictures of them and some of the goats were so close that I could have reached out and touched them. The path consisted of a boardwalk most of the way. I counted most of the stairs and got one hundred fifty so I know that we climbed well over three hundred stairs. We then hiked to Saint Mary Falls and on to Virginia Falls which was much higher and more beautiful. There were several lesser falls on the way. Each one got more breath taking. The water was transparent surf green with red rocks and many other colors in the bottom. The final hike was shorter to Baring Falls near the Sunrift Gorge. About halfway along the shore of Saint Mary Lake we headed back to camp and caught the last half hour of an amphitheater program by a talented Blackfoot Indian named Jack Gladstone who sang and told stories about Indian culture and traditions.
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