Saturday, September 30, 2006

Sperry glacier


Sperry Glacier is a really really really long way away! We had to wake up when it was still dark to get ready for this hike, our last hike. Scott said something about an 'easy day hike', so we were pretty happy, even though Ann looked concerned.
Well.
We went up. And up. And up. Through woods. Through fields. Through narrow trails. Through rocks. Through ice. And then when we thought we were there, we weren't! It was FURTHER!
But we made it, and here we are at the top. Phew! So much for an easy day hike!
We made up time on the end by sliding down the glacier which was fun! But then we still had a long walk down and we started to get nervous as it got dark. What about the bears? Bears! We were singing and singing to try to scare off the bears. We thought we could make friends with them, but then we got worried that these bears might not be interested. Luckily, we made it down by the hair on our tails! Oh yummy dinner time and sleep!!!! SLEEP! What a day! What a hike! Now we know what to make of Scott's 'easy day hikes' after all.

More Glacier National Park tales




Here we are at Logan Pass on the Continental Divide! We didn't know what that meant. We didn't see any dividing. Actually, we're too little to divide. But Ann told us it was the place where all of the river waters decide what direction they are going to go. I guess that is pretty important to us so we know where we are swimming!
You wouldn't believe it, but we have seen snow in the summer! We were confused because it was August! But look what happened in Glacier! There was falling snow and we got c-c-c-cold! We weren't really prepared for that in the summer. We had to sit in the car and nibble on our lunch before our tails got numb. It was good to be in Ann's backpack that day, out of the wind.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Glacier National Park


Woohoo - we have been to Glacier National Park! It's in Montana. We went with Scott and Ann for a week! We were excited. It's been awhile since we got to do some hiking. So we made sure we were prepared. We got a map of the park. We cleaned out Ann's backpack and found good ways to be strapped in.





Actually we got to go to 3 states! We landed in Washington and stayed a night there. And then we got to go to Idaho, which Ann says is a place with lots of potatoes. But we didn't see any potatoes. We weren't there very long though.
What we did see when we go to Montana though, were huckleberries! They were everywhere. In food, ice cream, soap, everywhere! Mmm. We got excited because hey! Huckleberries look like us! We are huckleberry otters!

We got to Glacier National Park in Montana pretty late. We were sleepy! But the next day Scott told us about something that made us too scared to sleep! Bears! There are grizzly bears in the park! Yikes! Our friend Bear, is a nice bear. We didn't think these ones sounded as nice as him.


The first day, we were singing a lot so that we wouldn't see any bears. Ann and Scott walked a long long way up up up! And then we made it! We got to the glacier! We think we might be the first otters on Grinnell Glacier!

Sunday, September 03, 2006

YAWN


Phew... we have had ONE GREAT SUMMER.

We have stories to tell, oh yes we do, from our last trip of the summer with Scott and Ann. Great stories. But that was a BIG trip. And we're still kinda tired. So, we promise we'll write about that trip real real soon. In the meantime, Pop has to work on his beauty sleep.

But when we're all rested, we'll show you photos from our trip... do you know where we went?!