Leaving Glacier, Montana


Well, with regret,  I finally left Glacier National Park, after a morning at Lake McDonald. The Sylver Gypsy moves on. I found a spot in the Flathead National Forest. I parked next to a creek, but it started to rain, and rather than risking getting stuck in the mud, I climbed up a bit of a hill onto a flat graveled area. It continued to drizzle rain for the afternoon, and I only had one visitor who promptly left. I was surrounded by forest, and mountains, and a very steep rock ledge cliff that could have become an avalanche, if I let my imagination run wild. I was also thinking about grizzlies and black bear. In the end it was a quiet evening, and I got some paperwork done as well. By the morning I hit the road, and low and behold, there was a black bear running across the street, as I just managed a distant photograph. Very cool. I also encountered some buffalo as I traveled into the plains area, in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, near Browning, Montana. I stopped at an IGA grocery store. I had no idea IGA was even around anymore, as I remember them fondly in my youth. Prices were insanely expensive, for a very poor community such as this, but in the end I needed groceries, so all was fine, as I found everything that I needed. I also stopped briefly at an agate shop to browse rocks. I continued on to find dispersed camping, using my apps to locate a spot at the Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Refuge. I am the only one at this particular campsite, surrounded by various lakes and ponds full of many birds and waterfowl. Fields of grasses, and water, as far as one could see. I wish I had a really decent pair of binoculars, but from what I could see along with geese, I saw blue heron, white pelicans, and cormorants. It's absolute serenity, in the low 70s, with an open-air breeze thats so soothing. 

I don't have to worry or think about grizzly or black bear here tonight!





























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