Glacier and Bigfork, Montana August 2011

This is the view looking down what we just hiked up. Our camp is down by that closest lake you can see. It might not look like it in the picture but the last part of this hike was literally almost straight up. The dirty white you see is the bottom of the Glacier that we hiked up too. This is in the Shangri La valley.


Here is Rivers getting ready to hike back along the Glacier and then down underneath where you can see the stream that is coming off from the ice melt.And this was just another beautiful section of a different hike that we did up towards Redrock Falls.

This was one of our first scenic stops once we got into Glacier. This is just off from "Going to the Sun" road. The water here is so crystal clear, it is beautiful. I am not used to rivers and streams being so blue and clear.

Here is Rivs looking Good with some of Glacier off in the distance.

Above: Here we are after making thru customs at the border with an expired passport. They were so busy asking if we were transporting things into the country that they must have missed the expiration date on my passport cuz it is a year past due. So this is the Canada side of Glacier. We came up for the day.
Above: Here we are with our friends Matt and Erin just inside Canada.
This is us after a pretty neat hike (and tiring) up to a lake in Waterton Nat'l Park. I can't remember the name.

Above: This is Rivers guiding us down the Swan river. Our tubes are tied together with that little rope and he is helping guide us so I can take pictures and video.

I just wanted to try and get a picture of the two of us on the river but I couldn't quite get a full view of me. It was kinda tricky on the tubes, but I thought Rivers looked so cute I had to post these of him.



Another cool thing is that there is an ATV/Snowmobile trail running all along the HWY so we could ride straight from the property to the market or where ever. This is a picture taken by out friends who are driving down the hwy.

Bigfork, Montana

Us taking a photo op' on the bridge in Bigfork, this is where we came back to jump because Rivers wanted us to enjoy some of the things he used to do while he spent summers up here.











Here is a little bear cub just off the road less than a 1/4 mile down the road from Pentico's property in Ferndale.











Here we are at a dock in town on the river. This is just below the shops and right before the river flows into Flat Head Lake.






We just stopped by to see these adorable mini horses (not ponies). This is just on the way to Bigfork from Ferndale (which is where the property is).




And here is us just getting ready to unload and set up camp on the property in Montana. They have 5 acres and even though the elevation is lower than Hurricane it feels like you are camping in the mountains.