Sept. 20, 2013

We left St. Mary's on the east side of Glacier National Park this morning, thinking we did enough here, but we know we'll be back.  It's such a beautiful area and the hiking is wonderful there.  My view of the drive from St. Mary's to Polson, MT was absolutely beautiful!  It went from the mountains at Glacier, skirting around the southern part of Glacier, seeing large ranches, over the Continental Divide, and then we followed Flathead River that flowed into Flathead Lake into Polson.  Jim's view was, he had to keep his eyes on the road!  We arrived at Eagle's Nest Resort and decided to stay a week here.  We checked the weather for the next week and we had sunshine today and they predict it to shine again next week Thursday!  We're making good time for our arrival at Leavenworth WA for Oktoberfest the first weekend in October, so we'll stay here a bit longer.  We got settled in and struck off for the Kerr Dam, which came highly recommended to us by our friend, Sam Robinson.  He didn't tell us that it has 352 steps DOWN to the dam, and of course, 352 back UP!  We did it, and we also found a cache down there.  The view of the dam and the surrounding area is very nice.  We are very glad we got to see it in the sunshine! Polson looks like a busy little town with lots of things to do in the area.  We'll be glad to stay in one place for a while.

Our home for this week.

Kerr Dam at Polson MT

Flathead River