Sunday, June 5, 2016

Great Falls to Columbia Falls (West Side of Glacier)

Great Falls Last Day
     We spent the morning of our last full day in Great Falls visiting the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery Interpretive Center. A very nice and interesting museum.....hadn't studied the Lewis and Clark expedition since grade school and it was a great refresher. The volunteers there were great and very enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge of the subject.

     We played in the Eagle Falls golf tournament around noon and did quite well. Kathy and I finished second place in our flight as a team and I won a closest to the pin on one of the par 3's. A few nice prizes but more importantly a great day and met some very nice folks.

Ed and Kay Progress
     They left home Saturday afternoon and have been making great progress (tonight in Mitchell, South Dakota) towards our rendezvous point, which is now Glacier National Park and estimated to be Wednesday or Thursday this week.

     While they are traveling, Kathy and I moved from Great Falls to the West Side of Glacier and are now staying in the town of Columbia Falls, Montana. After our arrival we checked out a Forest Service Lake (outside of Glacier)  called Hungry Horse......a really pretty and large mountain lake.

Hungry Horse Lake

Hungry Horse Lake

     We plan to spend the next couple of days exploring the west side of Glacier Park and the towns in this area....Columbia Falls, Whitefish, and Kalispell Montana and maybe a ride through the Swan Valley - one of our golf tournament partners recommended seeing. We will leave here in time to meet with the Culpeppers on the east side of Glacier National Park in St. Mary, Montana.