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Day 6 - To Polebridge



Today was a very rainy day, with it raining off and on till about 2:00PM, so I didn’t get a sunrise photo this morning.  Instead we slept till about 6:15AM and got breakfast at 7:30AM and then drove up to Polebridge.   People drive up to Polebridge, which is about 35 miles from the Canadian border,  to get fresh baked goods.  We got a large huckleberry bear claw and a spinach pastry roll. Was it worth it to drive 15 miles on an unpaved, potholed, dirt road in the rain, in my opinion no. The bear claw was good, I haven’t eaten the spinach roll yet,  but not driving down a dirt road to some one building town, good.   After that little adventure we drove over to the Fish Creek area to hike the Rocky Point trail.  I wanted to hike this trail to see if it would be a good place to take a sunrise photo over Lake McDonald.  Sadly the point was facing the wrong direction for it to work well.   The best location will be from the boat launch in Apgar.   


After the hike, we drove over to Apgar to eat at Eddie’s Grill & Cafe in Apgar.  By the way Apgar is one of the main lodging, information, and rental areas on the west side of Glacier NP.  The cafe was ok, it was standard park cafe food with sandwiches and burgers.  After lunch we drove up the Going-to-the-Sun road to see McDonald Falls and the Sacred Dancing Cascades and stopped in their little pull off areas.  However, I think the Silver Staircase Waterfall, along US Highway 2 about 30 minutes from our hotel, is better.  We drove to this waterfall after seeing the ones in the park.  On the way back from the Silver Staircase Waterfall,  we stopped at the Goat Lick wildlife viewing area.  Amazingly enough there were mountain goats, but mind you not at the sign telling you will see the goats.  You had to go slightly beyond the end of the viewing area to see the goat, but we saw big goats and a baby goat.  The goats were doing what the sign said, licking the cliff walls to get after the salt.   Amazingly enough I got more than goat butt pictures.  After seeing the goats we headed back to the hotel for the day.  Tomorrow we will travel to the East side of the park to go to the Many Glacier area.

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