Glacier National Park (Day 3)

Lake Josephine overlooking Grinnell Glacier

The first day is easy, you just have to drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road, but deciding what to do the next day is harder...there are 288 trails.  Using Trip Advisor, we decided to go to Grinnell Lake.  You can take a boat most of the way,  but the boat was full, with a wait list by the time we got there, so we walked which added about 5 miles, but they turned out to be the very best part of the hike...alpine wild flowers everywhere.

Suspension bridge on Grinnell Lake Trail

We certainly were not alone, but it wasn't crowded either.  There seems to be a rumor going around that Grizzly Bears are afraid of little bells, lots of people walking around with bells on their belt, and holsters of bear spray.  We saw a few signs of bear activity...a couple of dig spots, and we met a ranger who was checking out some bear rumors.  When we got back, I read Deb the story of the last bear attack in Glacier Park, which took place in 2005, on yup...the same trail we were on.  Deb didn't sleep all that well last night.