Category: USA

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…

Day 5 We’d heard from Mojo and Speakeasy (the through-hikers we hung out with at St. Mary’s) that the Many Glacier Hotel does an all-you-can-eat breakfast for $21, and that’s just as valuable to touring-cyclists-cum-day-hikers as it is to through-hikers, so finally we had the morning to (literally) take advantage of the offering. Since we…

Day 4 Our last hike in the Many Glacier valley would take us up into the north fork of the north fork, to Iceberg Lake. This is a lake where the highlight is right in the name: chunks of ice can be found floating freely on its surface well into summer. It’s not just due…

Day 3 We were pleased to wake up and find that we could still walk after yesterday’s record hike. We’d slept in (after another “lucky” 10pm rain that came while we were paying for this roof) and had a soft-boiled egg breakfast in our cabin. That’s because yesterday evening I had even had the energy…

Day 2 We’re spending a lot of money to be able to explore the Many Glacier valley, so let’s go big before we go home. Wait, we don’t have a home to go to, but soon the Swiftcurrent Motel manager will tell us, like a bartender, “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t…