Day 128 - July 22, 2008

Today we got up at the crack of dawn to catch an early morning park shuttle to make our way to the boat dock at Rising Sun. This involved taking two different shuttles. The first shuttle ride was in a minivan size shuttle as that is the only size that can make it up to Logan's Pass. Then we switched to a larger shuttle which took us to Rising Sun. We had a great ranger led trip across St. Mary's Lake and then a 3 mile (round trip) hike to St. Mary's Falls. Then we took a short hike to Baring Falls. Next we hiked to a lunch spot and then began our epic shuttle trip to get back. You see at 7:00 am it was easy to get a quick shuttle. However, at 2:30 pm it was not the same. It took us about 4 hours to get home on three different shuttles. However, the sights of the day made it all worthwhile. I think when you look at the pictures below that you will agree.

Incredible sight on our boat ride to St. Mary Falls - does it get any better than this?

The St.Mary Falls - check out the beautiful water color due to "glacier flour"

The Barring Falls

One of the last remaining glaciers at Glacier National Park - the Sexton Glacier