A little after 6 PM, JoAnn and I took a flight from Allentown to Cincinnati, switched planes, and then flew to Billings, Montana. We got there late at night, got our rental car, and stayed in a Billings motel.
August 22, 2004
We started the 6+ hours drive to Glacier National Park by taking Route 3 up to Route 12 west, where we saw Black-billed Magpies along the road. This was a sightseeing trip, not a birding trip, but the magpies were really obvious. We took Route 191 up to Route 87 and headed west towards Great Falls and I-15. Between the towns of Stanford and Geyser, I stopped to take a photo of the vast, open terrain.
We picked up I-15 and exited onto Route 2, where we went through Cut Bank and picked up Route 89. After passing through Kiowa, I took this photo of the highway winding its way towards St. Mary, which is located on the eastern edge of Glacier National Park.
We checked into our St. Mary motel and found out that there had been a landslide across the Going-to-the-Sun Road, so the road was only open up to Logan Pass. That would put a major kink in our plans.
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