Glacier National Park, Homesteads, Roads, and Bears...

Made a run up the west side of The Glacier yesterday, to a lil' place called Kintla Lake. You start up a paved two lane... it turns to sorta paved two lane (no paint stripes)... which turns to gravel...

*West Side of Glacier National Park*

The road goes past Polebridge Mercantile... Which is a lil' country store out in the middle of No Where... with a Suh-Wheet lil' bakery in it... Bread, Huckleberry Brownies, Bear Claws, Cookies... Genuine Diet Wreckers...

*Polebridge Montana and the Mercantile*

 One thing about these folks in Montana... Seems like their attitude might have got changed a touch when the wolves got imposed on 'em...

*Dog discipline is Required in Montana!*

So... If your pup looks "tasty" when you're passing through Polebridge... I'd suggest ya'll keep the family friend on a leash! :)

On the way there, You'll pass right by a lil' homestead that the Park Service brags is still standing...

*McCarthy Homestead*

'Course... The part they DON'T tell you is... The family was LIVING on Their Family Homestead, on Deeded Private Ground... When it was Condemned and Seized by the Feds and Park Service... The Rest of the story...

Anyway... you roll up that gravel road... it turns to single lane, dirt road, with you pulling off in wider spots to let cars coming the other way pass the big Ol' wide flatbed Dodge... and you come around a corner...

Um... Not getting Whiny here... just wondering... If it's already down to a thin one lane... What does it become when it Narrows? :)

We made it through the Narrows, all the way up a lil' road I put the rig into 4X4 to idle over the rougher spots, and ended at Kintla Lake... With the Loons callin' as we pulled up... Awesome!

*Kintla Lake*

Stopped there for a couple hours. Planned on just having a late lunch... and ended up sitting at a table on the bank of the lake having a real fine conversation with the Decedents of the McCarthy's (The Homesteaders that lost their family home to Federal Seizure after generations of living there)... They were there celebrating their 25th...

On the way back down, we did spot a decent Black Bear... that actually almost Black for a change... but he wasn't cooperating for his portrait... Kept sliding behind brush and junk... so when I almost got an opportunity I jammed the shutter button so hard I made the camera shake hard enough even its vibration reduction system couldn't fix it... and only got this blurry pic...

Ya take what ya can get... right?

Today... If I get moving, we're riding the Raider up over Going to the Sun road... and then down around the south end of "The Glacier"... so... I guess I better quit tappin' the keys... and start putting my butt in gear...

In Montana for another couple days
Brian

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