Our 10 day trip-3

Day 4 and Night 4

We started out really early, and not so bright. Hot breakfast was served in Tamarack and the bagels were freshly baked and delicious (as delicious as they can be anyway). Tamarack lodge is maintained by a family who live there near the west entrance to Glacier National Park. check it out if you are heading into GNP from the west! They opened up their living room to us, which was one of the most rustic and most wonderfully set up living room ever. You gotta see to believe it.

As for the day itself, it was another washout. It was raining continuously and visibility was very poor. We drove alongside Lake McDonald, given that there was not much to see at the viewpoint with very poor visibility. There was some interesting points with as much as we could see all the way up as far as they let us go. Usually Going-to-Sun highway is open by mid June, but given excess stormy winter, which meant much more snow, it was delayed and we missed Logan Pass. I dont think we would have been able to see much anyway. One of the points- Weeping wall was quite interesting to see . This has to be experienced before its too late in summer. Mimicking a driver before me, I drove the SUV right under the weeping falls, where there was a cavity in the wall.

After that we set out on the long drive from Glacier NP to the town of Jackson close to Grand Tetons National Park. This one is expected to take well over 9hrs. We stopped at Bigfork for a very well made flat crust pizza and had fun along the way.
Along the way we encountered some very weird names for towns such as Kicking Horse, Yerka, Bonner, Nimrod and Divide (yes you read it right- Divide)
Stretches of I-15 was soo very empty, that as we entered Idaho, we missed taking a picture of the big sign that said Welcome to Idaho- Well no problem, we simply stopped the car, backed it up (yes in reverse) and took a couple of shot and moved on.

We made a quick stop in Idaho falls, admiring one of the widest falls ever seen (must be the widest after Niagara would be my guess) then drove our way in the darkness to Jackson, Wy. Now on many of US highways, I have and I am sure most of you would have seen signs for Deer Crossing but really not many deers visible. But as we hit the back highway to reach Jackson off the Interstate from Idaho falls, we saw countless number of deers right off the road. We had to be careful and drive slow least we hit one. By the time we arrived in Jackson, it was well dark and way past 10pm again. Long day full of driving but after this we dont forsee much driving around, except in the parks.