One of the 25 Glaciers left out at Logan's Pass. Can you pick Pat out.

We made it to Glacier as you can see from Paddy's great photos of the Mountain Goats and ground squirrel from yesterday's wayfarin adventure. He is using the "real" camera as much as possible now, but the photos on this page are from my phone. 
The first day (Friday) it was blowing still 35 mph with gusts in the 60s so we stayed close to the RV. Paddy had to rest from the white knuckling experience of driving in those kinds of winds.  9000 people were still out of electricity on Friday. We walked about 3 miles yesterday and 6 miles today.  Getting better but still winded.  You see Paddy going ahead of me to the glacier fields near Hidden Lake, a 480 feet upgrade 3 miles).  We didn't get to go to the entire trail because of BEARS-the big kind-Grizzly. The Park Service now closes trails if bears are seen.  The idea is to NOT have any encounter! The method is make a lot of noise especially near streams and blind areas, carry bear spray (like pepper spray), avoid walking near cow parsnip and berry patches, at dawn, dusk and night.  We are about the only ones without spray, but we sing along the trails:"Love is the Water that Wears Down the Rock", "Help Some Body", "Do Must What Be Done" and my all time favorite "They Call the Wind Mareah". There are 250 Grizzlies and 500 Black Bear in Glacier alone.

A closeup of my mountain man.

My favorite hike today was another climb, but this time down to St. Mary's Waterfall and Virginia Falls then again back up.  Everything is far apart in this International Peace Heritage Park of 1720 square miles so we took the shuttles.  In 1910 there were 150 huge glaciers and now only 25 small remaining and will most likely be gone in an estimated 6 years according to the National Park system which states that without a doubt climate change and global warming is the cause for the extreme lost of fields.
The mountains, rivers, lakes and meadows are sacred to the Blackfeet, Salish and Kootenai Peoples and hope lives here in recovery of animals like the wolves, bear and lynx.  The hope is that even the mountain lion will regain a foothold some day. There are millions of visitors each year and the hope is that by educating people we will learn to value wilderness and its sacredness. Paddy calls this land  "Cathedral".