We took a Red Bus tour of the park called “Crown of the Continent” today. It was wonderful and we enjoyed it very much. Our bus was a 1933 red bus made by the White Company and has a retractable roof. It holds 17 people plus the driver who is driver and tour guide. Our driver/guide was Eric and he was superior at his job. The tour was 7 hours long and never a dull moment. Eric’s background is interesting- this is his summer job and in the winter he drives for the scientists in Antarctica. He talked none stop all the 7 hours! Eric was full of information and facts about Glacier.
In our travels today we experiences the three seasons in the areas we visited. We saw the east side as semi-arid area that was very much like the Yukon Territory and the Denali area of Alaska. It great small amounts of rain and the plants are the same. Once you pass the Logan Pass, one travels to the Pacific Rainforest which is very green, lush and beautiful with colors. Logan Pass is the highest point that one can travel by car in the park and it is the permafrost area which means the trees are few and very short and the flowers were just starting to bloom. In this area there was still snow on the ground all over. We learned that the road, “Going over the Sun” was just opened on 13th of July this year because they got 200” of snow this year. We saw many waterfalls in our drive that is because of the all snow this year.
The weather was sunny until we started up to Logan Pass after lunch at the McDonald lodge. We had rain for 15 minutes and then it stopped. We really enjoyed our tour and were surprised at the beauty of Glacier and wondered why we never visited it before. So we have put it on our repeat to visit list. Today was a wonderful enjoying God’s creation!
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