Saturday, August 21, 2021

Waterton Lakes National Park

We were so thrilled to make it into Canada!

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Waterton Lakes National Park is attached to Glacier and they are managed together as the first International Peace Park. We were blown away by just how beautiful it  was...

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We loved the famous Prince of Wales hotel!

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And we loved the Bears Hump Trail!

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The trip was over so quickly but I feel like we did so much and the decision to go to Canada paid off big. What an amazing adventure - can't wait to do it again!

Friday, August 20, 2021

Glacier National Park

For our next trip we decided to pick just one amazing National Park to explore for a whole week. We saw Glacier was kind of out of the way and the photos looked so beautiful. When we arrived the fires had created a haze over the whole place which made everything feel mystical somehow...

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We saw a grizzly bear the very first night we arrived!

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The following morning we got up with the sun to hit the trails...

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We saw a long horned sheep and a grizzly bear cub!

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The next morning we headed out to do the famous Avalanche Lake hike. It was just gorgeous...

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The weather dropped about 30 degrees over night so we went for a drive on the Going-To-The-Sun road. It's the one featured in the opening to the movie The Shining (link here) and just as terrifying - particularly in low visibility weather. Once we were done we relaxed on a boat tour on the beautiful Lake McDonald:)

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We hiked around Two Medicine and decided to take the plunge and try and visit Canada too while we were right there...

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