Alaskan Adventure: Day 17. We hoped that Going to the Sun Road would be open all the way to Logan Pass but we are a few days too early and the snowplows are still opening the top of the road. We drove up as far as we could and enjoyed a peaceful sunny morning in the mountains.

Morning view of clouds over Singleshot Mountain from near our campground.

We headed up Going To The Sun Road with some breath taking scenery. It was early enough to have only light traffic.

Purple Penstemon also known as Beard Tongue.

Yellow Penstemon and Red Indian Paintbrush.

Lots of big and small waterfalls coming down from the melting snow.

Raven.

Beargrass blooming.

Mount Jackson and Jackson Glacier.

View from Jackson Glacier Overlook – as far as we could go on the Going To The Sun Road.

Lots of old fire burned trees in some areas.

After our road trip up and back as far as we could on Going To The Sun Road we stopped in St. Mary’s Village for lunch then headed north to the Many Glaciers Entrance near the town of Babb. Part of the road into Many Glacier is gravel. Good practice for Alaska.

Had to get some Montana brewed Moose Drool beer. Tasty.

The Stamp. Hoping to add a stamp when we get to Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park which is a “sister” park sharing the US/Canada border with Glacier.

Selfie at Many Glacier Hotel. This 1914 Swiss Style hotel was one of many built by the Great Northern Railway.

View from back deck of Many Glacier Hotel. Swift Current Lake and Grinnell Point Mountain (the pyramid shaped one in front)

I think Mount Gould is the name of this one.

Interior of Many Glacier Hotel fireplace.

10 years ago in 2016 we had Huckleberry Pie here in St Mary’s Village. Hoping to do that again but it’s closed now.

One last shot of St Mary’s Lake and the mountains on the East side of Glacier National Park.

Our next travel day will be crossing customs into Alberta, Canada at Chief Mountain Summer Station on Friday, June 18th.

Favorite Bible reading passage for today: Isaiah 53:3-8

³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
    for the transgression of my people he was punished.