July 23, 2017 – Many Glacier Campground, Grinnell Glacier Hike We set the alarm for 4:15am and rolled into the Many Glacier Campground at 5:30am. It was still 20 miles, much slow over a rough road, away from where we […]
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The Journey Begins
July 21, 2017 – On the road again The next adventure has begun and already we have made significant changes to our plans. Months ago, we decided on a 3 week tour through Montana, finishing with Glacier National Park for […]
Lake Coeur d’Alene
We finally woke up to a sunny morning on the last full day of our trip. We harnessed Molly and took her for a short 2 mile hike around Tubbs Hill. It’s a treed loop near the lake with viewpoints over the […]
Huge Accomplishment!! Half a Century Bike Ride!!!
After having an indoor rainy day yesterday of catching up on blog posts going to the movies to see Bourne (good), and splurging at Angelo’s Ristorante for Italian, we were ready for a challenge today. There are two long trails here […]
Full Day of Fun
Even though we have a 215 mile drive to Coeur d’Alene today, we decided to use up every minute we have at this awesome little lake and enjoy the heck out of it til checkout time at noon. We were on the […]
Fishing Tournament…Not Really
Today was the day to get the canoe on the water and try to catch some fish. We haven’t had much luck fishing on this trip and this looked like a nice place to catch some trout. We had the […]
The Historic Town of Winthrop, WA
We drove out of the mountains of the North Cascades back into the rolling plains. Someone told us that the town of Winthrop was a cute little cowboy town so we planned 2 nights here. Just before we arrived, we […]
Diablo Lake in North Cascades National Park
The “crown jewel” of North Cascades National Park is Diablo Lake. It is a stunning turquoise green lake. We had intended on putting the canoe in and fishing, but the wind didn’t really cooperate the days we were there. Instead, we […]
Hike to Rainy Lake/Maple Pass
We started the morning fishing from our campground in the Skagit River. I dressed to the 9s in my hip waders and fishing vest. We knew there were both trout and salmon in the lake. We were ready for the trout, […]
Hiking Cascade Pass in North Cascades National Park
We purchased a Nikon D750 camera several months ago and this is the first trip we have actually put it to use. We are slowly getting the hang of it but photography is tough and it will take us some time […]