The Great 2025 Road Trip Day 10

Another night of little to no sleep.  Up at midnight when we heard these air raid style sirens for no reason we could figure. Then again at 3am to try to get a glimpse of the Perseids meteor shower.  Moon was too bright.  And lastly at 5 to get into Glacier park in hopes of a walk up permit for backpacking. 

We waited a bit and decided to just go in to the park and enjoy it and skip backpacking. It was still dark as we got going down the road. 

The views were absolutely amazing.  The drive though was equally scary and annoying.  The park is horrendously overcrowded.  And this was at 6am.  We didn't get to see much of anything. 

We finally got a place to park near the other end of the park and were able to get in a nice 6 mile hike to 3 different waterfalls.  The photos can't do or justice.  We kept saying the whole thing looks fake because it's so gorgeous.  And we only saw the less exciting parts!

We were exhausted and dehydrated and went to our camp for tonight and napped a bit. It is so much hotter than I'd anticipated.  I checked the weather constantly the entire week.  It's been in the lower 90s and since there is no shade anywhere it's well into the 100s easy.  

We may attempt to get in early again tomorrow and utilize the shuttles to get to a better trail.  Although no doubt it will be over crowded too.  Weather is telling me much cooler temps but I'm skeptical.  


Miles driven: 2716
Miles hiked: 23
Stayed Count: 9

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