Wednesday, July 30, 2008

To Glacier

We left at 10am for the Park.  I have not car-camped for a while and forgot how much you can pack.  We brought four chairs, a picnic hamper with all dishes we would need, a cooler, 3 fishing poles, tackle box, clothes, day pack, two burner stove with fuel, and more.  

We stopped in Shelby to pick up last minute groceries, and then arrived in East Glacier around 2pm.  We stayed in a small campground called Cut Bank, which is advertised as "primitive."  It has a pump with non-potable water and pit toliets, but it seemed pretty nice to me.  We set up tents, put together some lunch and walked up a the trial that left from the campground.  We walked about a mile then turned back.  We ate a dinner of red beans and rice with some hot beer sausage we got from my Dad.  We then had smores and hotdogs over a fire.  We picked out a trail for the next day, the Triple Divide Peak.  We had thoughts of sumiting the peak so we set our alarms for 7am to get an early start.  

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