Beautiful, Exciting Day

Today was the day we drove all the way through Glacier National Park. It was a beautiful day with so much gorgeous scenery there is no way I could post all the photos.
















There were beautiful wildflowers in many colors. Unfortunately there was also road construction so we knew we'd have some pauses in our adventure.

At our first rest stop we heard about an accident at the construction area. We knew we were going to have a longer pause in our trip than originally planned. A loader driver went over the side of the cliff and had to be airlifted to medical help. It had just happened before we got to the site.


We watched as they hauled him up the hill and the ambulance brought him to Logan's Pass



where the helicopter was waiting to take him to the hospital. We later learned in the split second he realized his rig was going down, he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped free. He was about 50 yards down the steep hill, but the rig was 700-800 yards down the hill. They will bring it up tomorrow because they will not leave it in a National Park. Added a bit of excitement to our day.

We drove on thru the park, then ate lunch at a place recommended by Sunset Magazine--the Two Sisters Grill. We had a great lunch.


Then we drove on to Many Glaciers Lodge--what a fantastic place. And the animals were in a mood to pose. First we saw a group of sheep and their babies who were curious about what we were doing there (at least the baby was curious). While we rested there Gary and Norm used the binoculars to spot a Mama bear and two cubs. I actually was able to find the cubs with the binoculars!



Then we came upon the huge grandfather sheep--notice the gigantic horns on the one to the left of the photo.






We drove further down the hill and saw a group of photographers hanging around--so of course, we slowed down, too. There was a gorgeous Mt. Goat resting very close to the road--like a photo op.



After all the excitement we headed back toward our RV park. As we drove down the hill from Many Glaciers, several cows ambled out into the road to prove free range opportunities exist in publc parks.

It was a beautiful day with added excitement. As we headed home and stopped for construction we found out the fellow in the accident was lucid the whole time and is going to be all right. Phew! Made our beautiful day complete.