Views from Piegan Pass hike

WEST GLACIER, MT - - Friday, we hiked to Piegan Pass.  The photos are in  reverse order so...going from bottom to top:  This is the trail once you get out of the tree line;  (mid)  Once out of the trees we could look west.  Down in the middle of this photo, if you use a magnifying glass, is where we and others parked.  Once on top of the pass we could have continued on another 6+ miles to Many Glacier Lodge.  Note the blue melt ponds, still with plenty of snow, in the lower left of the pic.  This is the area where we met our Columbian friend from the previous post, before turning around and heading back.

Don't feed the annimals.

WEST GLACIER, MT - - Columbian Ground Squirrels will eat just about anything.  They are good at begging...especially at places on the trail where people stop for lunch/snacks.  This fellow spied us as we stopped atop Piegan Pass.  You're not supposed to feed these guys or any of the animals in the park, but our buddy had his act really worked out.  First he got a crust of bread; then a cheese cracker with peanut butter and when these were scarfed up he put on his best "Please, just one more crumb" face.

There are camper vehicles and then there are CAMPER VEHICLES

 RADIUM HOT SPRINGS, BC, CAN - - We spent two nights camping at Tunnel Mountain Campground near Banff.  Besides a proliferation of very high dollar motor homes vying to be noticed most, there were the one-off types.  The Mercedes-Benz ark, above, was shipped over from Holland.  The rolling hotel, below, we've seen before in Canada.  This German-based company has at least two of these registered in Alaska and is quite popular with German tourists.  It comes with its own kitchen and everyone aboard gets their own little crypt to sleep in.

Revisiting

RADIUM HOT SPRINGS, AB, CAN - - There are plenty of things you can do on your days off.  This time we chose to head to Banff and Lake Louise (in Alberta, Canada) to check out some places we haven't seen in 4 years.  Emerald Lake Lodge area was just one stop.  The quiet is fine for those who like to canoe and the flowers are blooming everywhere.