Haaay!
We're in Spokane, WA right now at the very gracious Machine's (Allers) house. We came out of Glacier National Park unscathed. We hiked into the backcountry and camped out by a little glacial lake in a bowl valley of huge snow covered peaks. We didn't actually see any bears, but there were a lot of bear prints on our trail to keep us on edge. After all the mental (dreams of confrontation), physical (going hoarse from yelling "Haay Bear!"), and fiscal (bear spray=$40) preparations we made, it was kind of a let down not to have to face off with a grizzly. A "friendly" deer did eat our bag of wheat thins though. Mike tried, at the ranger's wishes, to scare it by hurling 20 pound rocks at it, but it didn't care...it kind of liked the wheat thins. Glacier is beautiful...wish we had more time...maybe next summer!
I'll let Mike talk about Banff since he had never been there. Tomorrow we're off to Seattle to play in Potlatch...
Banff National Park was beautiful, but overcast. We experienced the park like 90% of the visitors do...driving to lakes or other beautiful destinations awing over them, taking a picture, and getting back in the car to drive to the next amazing place. We hiked a little around Morainne Lake (which was amazing), but we saved any backpacking trips for next time when there is better weather. We spent our coldest and wettest night in Banff Monday night, and one of our best camping nights last night in the grizzly infested backcountry of Glacier. Although we were sufficiently scared of bear attack, the mountain winds rushing over the lake drowned out any prowling grizzly noises that were certainly happening just outside our tent.
Cara =P & Mike
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