Nancy, Where Are You?

Last Sat. morning we went zip lining in White Fish. We didn’t start until 10:00 and didn’t finish zipping until 1:00. They forgot to tell us that we were going to have to carry a 15 lb. trolly on our shoulder as we hiked up the mountain. In one place we went up so high that we rode in a chair lift but mostly we hiked with that damn trolly on our shoulder. To tell the truth we loved it - the zipping that is. We drove to Apgar Village in Glacier. Our room/cabin overlooked the river. We had a great view!

The next day (Sun) we got up at 6:30, put on our clothes over our PJ’s, grabbed our TRIPODS and went down to the lake (Lake McDonald) to take pictures before the sun came over the mountains. We drove to the transit center and caught a bus to McDonald Lodge where we had breakfast. We were still hungry when we finished because we could only afford an English Muffin. We got on another bus to Avalanche Creek where we hiked to Avalanche Lake. It was a beautiful hike but it took us a couple of hours because we kept stopping to take pictures. We were freezing when we started off since we didn’t wear jackets but it wasn’t long before we warmed up and were glad we didn’t have them.
After the hike and lunch we took an hour cruise on Lake McDonald. They had a ranger on board who gave us information about the lake and park.
When we got back to Apgar Village we headed out to Polebridge. The night before we met a couple down by the lake and they told us that Polebridge is a historic, quaint, tiny, little village where they serve a lovely special every night. It’s about 25 miles from Apgar Village. We drove and drove over paved and unpaved roads in and out of the park. Some of the paved roads were only “lightly” paved. They were just like the Yellowstone roads - full of potholes! They had outlined the really bad holes with red paint so people wouldn’t fall in and get stuck.
We were almost ready to give up when we finally arrived. There were only two commercial buildings: the Mercantile Building and the Northern Lights Saloon where we intended to eat. Remember this place is 25 miles from anywhere and there is nothing around, the place was packed!!! They were eating out in the yard on picnic tables and also inside. The building (log cabin) is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The food looked great but it was too expensive for us, around $12-15 a plate. We decided to go back to Apgar Village and have a hamburger.
We went into the Mercantile/Bakery and on a table was a big jar with a sign asking for donations so they could get the internet!
When we got back to Apgar the only place to eat was even more expensive than the saloon at Polebridge so we had wine and crackers in our room.