Category: Bike Tour
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Glacier National Park (St. Mary), MT to Glacier National Park (Rising Sun), MT
In the middle of the night, I started hearing a rustling outside the tent. Five minutes of listening confirmed that I wasn’t imagining it, and it wasn’t stopping, so I figured I ought to do something about it. It sounded like too fine of work to be a bear, but what the heck do I…
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Glacier National Park (St. Mary), MT
Day 2 For the first night in a long time, the meteorological metrics of low temperature and rain probability were such that we could let laziness take over and skip putting the rainfly on the tent. But the other meteorological metrics of clear skies, temperature changes, and dewpoint surprisingly meant the top of our sleeping…
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Glacier National Park (Two Medicine), MT to Glacier National Park (St. Mary), MT
Time to move on from Two Medicine. We certainly didn’t do all the hiking there that we would have liked to, but even with our unconstrained peregrination, we’ll always have to leave some things undone, and we also needed a return to connectivity. It was interesting on the ride out (which was a repeat of…
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Glacier National Park (Two Medicine), MT
Day 2 After seven straight days of riding, it was time to give our bodies a break. So no epic (or even non-epic) mountain hikes until we’re rested up. An advantage of our no-deadline life is that, even though we’re in this special place, we don’t need to try to optimize every moment here by…
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Browning, MT to Glacier National Park (Two Medicine), MT
A week after leaving Missoula and wrapping around to the east, today we finally enter Glacier National Park! The east side of the park is roughly arranged like a trident: the large center spear is Going-to-the-Sun Road, the one road that cuts all the way through to the west side of the park. The other…