Bucket List Day!
We left the house at 8:30 am and drove into West Glacier to the
Glacier Raft Company where we signed in for our all-day rafting trip.
Our trip started around 9:30 with our getting on a school bus and driving about 15 miles east along Hwy 2 (the way we drove the first day we were here towards Two Medicines.)
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| The is the West Glacier Entrance |
Our trip started around 9:30 with our getting on a school bus and driving about 15 miles east along Hwy 2 (the way we drove the first day we were here towards Two Medicines.)
We got into the rafts with our guide Matt and
four older women from St. Louis and Houston and we floated down the Middle Fork
of the Flathead River. It was amazing,
incredible, relaxing, beautiful and PRESTINE!
We were on protected lands the entire trip.
The first half of the trip was more of a
float trip than a rafting trip because of the flow rate of the river. Matt told us that in June, the entire trip
(that took us about six hours, would take less than three hours.) Around lunch
time, our boats pulled over to the bank of the river and we ate steaks and
salad that our guides cooked for us over an open flame on the side of the
river. It wasn’t a great steak but it will
go down as one of the most memorable steaks ever. Steve, one of the other guides, referred to
the steaks as rare, mid rare, medium and well-done. We got back in our boat (with Ann, Kathy, Kim
and Linda) and continued our trip which turned into more of a white-water
rafting trip. We also saw a bald eagle
up in a tree, just grooming itself.
When
we were about 20-30 minutes from the finish, it began to rain and we were already
wet from the rapids so I secretly wished that the trip had been about 15-30
minutes shorter than it was but it was otherwise, absolutely perfect in every
way. We got back to the raft store
around 4 pm and we all bought shirts, hats, stickers…something. It was such an
amazing trip. When we got back to the
cabin, Nick and I walked down for dinner at the lodge and we brought back
cheeseburgers and fries for the kids. It
was a long day and I was happy to go to bed.
White Water Rafting…CHECK!
We
also altered our trip just a bit to stay here an extra day rather than spend a
night in Spokane so Friday will feel like a bonus day!!!
Funny memory: Every time Matt (our guide) wanted us to paddle he'd say "All forward" and when he wanted us to stop he'd say "And take a break". He had a skater, surfer-dude voice, kind of like the turtle from Finding Nemo. It was the best!
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