High in the Mountains
On July 15
th, we drove through (due to time constraints)
Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. Mount Rainier can be seen from Seattle – so you can imagine how impressive it is up close. The park is beautiful, a lot of wild flowers, waterfalls, green valleys, …
The reason we had to rush through Mount Rainier was our 6 hour trip to
Glacier National Park in Montana. Our good friend, Chris, recommended us to visit this park (along with a lot of other great recommendations btw) – we had never heard of it before. I don’t know why this park isn’t popular in Europe. It has been described as the American version of the Alps.
We were there for two days. So, we had plenty opportunity to explore the park. We went hiking through an ancient forest, next to a glacial river, to a beautiful glacial lake.
We drove through Logan Pass, with incredible views on the snow capped mountains and a waterfall everywhere you looked.
We hopped on one of the tour boats to explore one of the big lakes in the park.
We went hiking in the snow (in sandals!) to another more amazing glacial lake.
We saw marmots, deer and mountain goats.
An amazing two days!!! So Europe, be advised and put Glacier on the map!
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