Here's my collection of waterfall photos from last weekend's Hyalite Creek hike.
Here's my collection of waterfall photos from last weekend's Hyalite Creek hike. Some extraordinary spots, indeed ...
At a high-end electronics shop today, I overheard an earnest young salesman explaining all about computers to a new...
At a high-end electronics shop today, I overheard an earnest young salesman explaining all about computers to a new customer: "You can use three different operating systems on a computer -- Apple, HP, and Google."
Beautiful, Mark - like waterfalls in the Cascades, but without 10,000 people on the trails!
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to warm up to Google+ (been weeks since I checked in, hardly at all since I signed up) as LJ does appear to be dying. :( I get the idea this can, if need be, be bloggier than FB - i.e., longer entries? I haven't warmed to Twitter at all, only set up an account for the business and don't use it.
Yes, this is definitely on the list of places we have to go someday....I'm trying to think of an equivalent hike in the Washington or Oregon Cacades with that many good waterfalls, ending at a good lake, and I'm having a hard time.
ReplyDeleteHi Teresa - it doesn't end at a good lake but Oregon's Silver Falls State Park is pretty near guaranteed to make you very, very happy. :) Seven major falls, four of which you can walk behind. Stunning. I've enjoyed it more in the winter, though, when the falls are fuller and there are significantly fewer hikers.
ReplyDeleteI just looked it up. Sounds wonderful....but they don't allow dogs! ~sacrilege! I'll have to put it on my list for someday tho...Thank you! I'm always interested in good ideas!
ReplyDeleteBah! If a trail is too good for my dog, it's too good for me.
ReplyDeleteI regret never making it to Hyalite despite living in Montana for 23 years, even though it was always on my list! Thanks for the photos.
ReplyDeleteErica Brown -- I definitely know what you mean ... I've never hiked up the Rattlesnake! The dog and I are definitely trying to fill in some of the gaps in my Montana exploration this summer, though ...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mark, that makes me feel better because I've been to the Rattlesnake a lot, even hiked it while in labor with Alexandra. It's always easiest to visit the nearby places, and also hard to resist the call of Glacier when you live in Missoula! Starting in the late 1990's, I finally expanded our horizons beyond GNP and made a point to take our daughters camping every summer in places we'd never been - Lewis and Clark Caverns, Lost Creek State Park, Bannack, Boise, McCall, Elkhorn Hotsprings, Boulder Hotsprings, Kananaskis in Alberta and my VERY favorite - the Kootenai Lake region of eastern BC. The girls won't let me forget the misguided night we spent at the Metlan Hotel in Dillon, or the time I left the tent at home because I thought Alex and I would be comfortable sleeping in our Toyota Corolla wagon. Poor Brant was in grad school and missed out, but all in all, lots of great times and so many wonderful places to explore.
ReplyDeleteErica Brown -- All great destinations ... well, except maybe for Boise. :) And I really love southeastern BC, though I haven't been there for ages. (I actually did some road trips up there in my Glacier Park days.)
ReplyDeleteBut Glacier still reigns for me ... especially the North Fork country. I'm heading up that way over Labor Day, with a night at the old Hornet fire lookout. Only slightly more comfortable than a Toyota station wagon, probably.
BTW, the Metlen Hotel is for sale, if you and Brant ever decide to change careers!
Goes w/o saying that Glacier's the best - reminds me of when Peter Zotai and Eve Brotman got jobs in Denali and hated it because, as Peter said, "Once you've tasted steak, who wants to eat dog food?" (Oops, hope Charlie's not reading over your shoulder...)
ReplyDeleteOh, don't worry -- Charlie already knows about the relative merits of steak and dog food. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd of course I totally relate to the Glacier-vs-everyplace else issue. It's really problematic living here in Bozeman, where so many people are deluded enough to think that Yellowstone is the preferred national park. (Yellowstone wouldn't even make my top 5 list!)
I hope that people continue considering Yellowstone the favored park because that saves more of Glacier for us! Now, if they'd only allow (well-behaved) dogs.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting ... one of the excuses the Glacier rangers use for banning dogs is that having a dog along on the trail might attract bears. But you go just outside the park, and the National Forest recommends bringing dogs along, because bears will avoid them!
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, though I know it'll never happen, I think it would be wonderful to allow dogs on at least some of Glacier's more remote trails. The Park Service is positively religious about that sort of stuff, though. :(
Amazing.
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