Day Seven

We left Billings this morning around 10am, made a quick stop at the local Star dealer and then headed towards Glacier National Park. It was more of a travel day than a sightseeing day. The only sightseeing we did was to see the beautiful scenery riding through Montana. There was a lot of scenery changes from flat plains of golden grain to the foothills of the Rockies with cliffs, rocks, streams and old aba ndoned mines. We saw a few deer, some buffalo, geese, ducks, and a lot of farm animals (cattle, longhorns, horses and sheep). The weather turned out to be beautiful despite a cloudy morning and forecast of thunder showers. Somehow we missed any rain by either splitting the clouds or staying a footstep ahead of the storms. Much of the day was spent under sunny very warm skies.

Our route today took us out of Billings on state route 3 to route 12 to US 89 to US 87 through Great Falls where we hopped on I15 to Shelby where we switched to state route 2 into Cut Bank, where we are spending the night.

We traveled about 350 mile, bringing our total to the 2400 range.

Tomorrow we will spend the morning travelling through Glacier NP. I anticipate a lot of beautiful scenery and some encounters with some wild animals. Hopefully some moose, elk, mountain goats and mabye a bear or two. Guess we will see.

Some of the shots for the day.
















Rockies in the distance (note the snow still on the mountains)
















Mountain lake (blue water)
















Wind power generators where everywhere

















Montana view
















Buttes















The crew
















Down in the valley




















View of river running through gorge















Roadside river (again...note the blueness of the water)

















Snowless ski slopes