Great Vacation Drives
Be a survivor in Glacier park. Glide over beaches. Relive the Revolution. Groove to the blues
With our great hiking feats, we felt like winners, too. But someone was poised to outdo us. At the foot of the Grinnell trail, we saw a teenage girl and her grandmother. Grandma must have weighed 200 pounds, and she wasn't very tall. She was shod in orthopedic sandals. "How long to that glacier?" she asked. "A couple of hours," I replied. "Not bad," she said to her granddaughter. Spying my wife's walking stick, the old woman said, "I gotta get me one of those sticks." Would they make it? "I see people I think will never get to the glacier, and they do," said Benson, our guide. If grandma and granddaughter succeeded, they would definitely be Glacier's ultimate survivors.
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[Map labels:] Canada, Waterton Lakes National Park; Glacier National Part; Grinnell Glacier; Lake McDonald; N. Fork Flathead River; Sperry Chalet; Going-to-the-Sun Road; Columbia Falls; Kalispell; [Rt.] 2; [Rt.] 89; [Rt.] 17; Area of detail; Montana
Trip Tips
Oh, Canada. For charming hotels, good food, and high tea, try Waterton, the tiny town in Waterton Lakes National Park, Glacier's Canadian conjoined twin.
Heavenly pie. Try a slab of huckleberry at Snowgoose Grille, near St. Mary Lake.
Music man. Jack Gladstone puts on a great show at park lodges. The Blackfoot Indian sings of canny beasts and mythic tricksters (see www.jackgladstone.com).
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