-Left early for Many Glacier, my favorite part of the Glacier National Park.  We arrived at 8 a.m. to lots of empty spaces.

-That didn’t last long.  Later in the afternoon they enforced the “One Car Out, One Car In” rule at Many Glacier (and Bowman Lake) due to massive traffic in Many Glacier. 

-If you come to Glacier National Park you must do the Iceberg Lake Trail.  It’s a ten mile trail but the only real “up” is the first 1/3 of a mile.  Everything else is gradual.

-I’ve mentioned this in the past and it bears (pardon the pun) repeating; bear bells don’t work.  The rangers on this hike stated again that they are too high pitched and the sound doesn’t travel enough.  Stop wearing them.

-My wife and I both wear bear spray when we hike.  We have had two trail encounters with bears, both grizzlies.  One was from 20 years on the Hidden Lake Trail (solo grizz) and one was from about 40 yards on the Grinnell Glacier Trail (Mama and two cubs). 

-An adult and baby mountain goat were hanging out above Iceberg Lake and I watched them for about ten minutes or so.

-I twisted my right ankle about 2/3 of the way down the trail.  Sucker hit a rock buried in the dirt and turned right over it.  Ouch. 

-Parking was insane on the way out of Many Glacier.  I’ve never seen this many people in the area.

-10 mile day today.