With the summer sun shining we wake up and prepare to head to KGPI. The Little Dude is sitting this trip out and Mama and Papa Pilot are getting a date flight. We depart KBDN and it is 2:20 to KGPI. The weather is great and the scenery on the way is stunning. The Glacier park airport is just beyond an lake bed. We are cleared to land on runway 2 and taxi to the Glacier Jet Center. We called the FBO before we left to secure a rental car and let them know we were coming. They gave us a ride to the FBO from the general aviation parking area because it isn’t super close to the FBO itself. The main terminal is right next to the FBO, so the rental car was there. We loaded up and found our accommodations for the next 2 nights. It was a little different booking a place to stay since we did not have The Little Dude with us. Although, The Great Bear Inn had a very spacious kid friendly room and breakfast in the morning. We would have liked to stay in Apgar on the south side or Many Glacier, but since our trips are plan as we go based on weather we don’t always get to book in advance. The Great Bear in was just fine. We headed into the park and bought a new annual pass since ours was expired, then we drove logan pass and hiked the Hidden Lake Trail off going to the sun road and returned the first day. The Hidden Lake trail would have been perfect for The Little Dude since it was mostly board ward and very wide when it opened up to gravel. We also saw many wildflowers and mountain goats on the trail.
The second day we wanted to visit the other side of the park, so we drove Highway 2, to 49, to 89 to get to Many Glacier. it was about a 2 hour drive. When we finally got to Many it was raining, hard! So we are the rest of the tourists retreated to the lodge for some beverages while the storm passed and it did! We decided on the Iceberg Lake trail. it was about 10 miles round trip, so something we would not to with The Little Dude. it was known for its bears, but we never saw any. We thoroughly enjoyed the trail and drove the mountain to sun road back to the Inn.
The next day was time to head back to the airplane ad head on to our next destination, McCall, ID.
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