Category: Bike Tour

Yesterday afternoon when we turned up to the hiker/biker site at Sprague Creek, the three tent pads were already taken: one clearly by (absent) bike tourers (who had the same tent and chairs as we did), one by unknown (absent) maybe day-hikers, and one by two sullen, uncommunicative girls in a giant Coleman tent who…

Oh man, I’m so sorry Dennis! Back in 2012, Amtrak’s Empire Builder brought my good friend and his bicycle from Chicago to East Glacier. The next morning, he left his East Glacier hotel, and rode north to St. Mary over a couple of major climbs, a route we essentially repeated on our 5th day in…

Day 2 After a couple hike-free days, it was time to get back on the trail. First order of business was a restaurant-breakfast fuel-up. Their menu was quite limited, because they were awaiting their weekly restock coming later today and had sold out of a lot of items. We faced the same issue getting groceries…

By the time we woke up at 7:15am, the three through-hikers were already packed up and gone. While it seems exhausting to be hiking any time you aren’t sleeping, and sleeping any time you aren’t hiking, I have to admit that there’s something attractive about the simplicity of it: when you have only two things…

It was finally time to say goodbye to the Many Glacier valley and return to the center fork of the east-side Glacier trident. Since it was a short ride, and we had no epic hike to start this morning, we were able to check out at 10:30am to extract the most out of our $240…