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The boat tour… July 29

Good morning, Sunrise (6:05 am)from my window.

I had a nice buffet breakfast at the lodge. The coffee was good and the biscuits flakey.

I’m now (8:08 am) waiting for the bus to take me to the boat tour of Two Medicine area. 

The boat tour of Two Medicine Lake is on the oldest boat on the lake. It was built in the 1920’s and has been in service ever since. 

So I’m back at the lodge and have been for a while went to eat, and read a book before posting.  As before the good pictures will be up Aug 8th or a bit later.

It seems more detail needed to be added to this trip.  It was not a 3 hour boat tour, but a 20 minute boat tour that took you across a lake so you could hike some of the shorter trails in East Glacier National Park.  I am glad I prepared for hiking, because some others didn’t and didn’t really see much of the park.

As before the good photos will be uploaded later, but I saw what is called here in the park The Twin Falls and further down the trail the Two Lakes both along the Bighorn Basin. I recorded some video that I will post later, but it needs some edits so I don’t sound like a complete idiot as a babel about stuff I know nothing about.

I’ve got two stories to tell, which is why anyone goes on an adventure…

The first, I met a woman who was 15 miles from completing the Continental Divide Trail.  She and a friend had just hiked 7 days and had stopped to take a shower and resupply as they made the final push to met the goal.  Sometime on July 30th this women will have hiked according to a google search 3100 miles from Mexico to Canada… That is dedication.  Admittedly, she said it was not all in one trek, but in multiple trips over a few years, but still that is way more than I’ve done nor most of us.

And story two, (insert chipmunk) Why is there a chipmunk here… he/she is the reason fro the story.  I was hiking the trail to the Two Lakes and at the end of the travel I stopped to drink some water and eat a bit of trail mix when I notice some of the native wildlife.  Since this is a frequently visited area with camp grounds near by, some of the smaller critters, ie a chipmunk were not as afraid as the birds and lizards I saw along the trail.  Why is this chipmunk so important? I saved a young man a bunch of money.  It seems he and a group of friends had been in that exact spot the day before and while leaving, this young man dropped something.  He dropped his car keys.  This little chipmunk I guess was interested in the keys, and as I was pointing him out to a group of ladies that had just arrived, one of their part noticed something and picked up some car keys.  They took those keys to the gift shop by the tour ferry and learned that the young man had called a tow truck earlier that morning and sadly he was already gone… but wait something had delayed the tow truck and he was sitting in the snack area drinking coffee and still waiting.  So the end of the tail, a little chipmunk looking for a candy bar helped out.

Well, I have another adventure tomorrow.  It is a bus tour of the park, so I’m thinking my feet won’t hurt as much… hehe.

One of the falls

Lake One

Lake Two