Into the Wild....

While everyone was off at the beach, having babies or eating burgers over the fourth....we planned another crazy adventure into the wilderness. This time it was a 6 day trip into the Montana Wilderness (Glacier National Park).

The trip featured about 50 miles backpacking and another 30-40 miles dayhiking both before and after the backpacking! Crazy? Oh yeah...Fun? Absolutely! Wildlife included being 10 yards from a black bear, seeing grizzlies from a far, sleeping next to deer, and meeting marmots, groundsquirrels, and big-horn sheep. The most annoying animal (and I do mean animal) was the mosquito. I think they even snuck home in my luggage!

I won't bore you with pages and pages of stories and sagas, so in "Late Night" style, I will give you the top 10 from our trip!

Top 10 fun & exciting items from the Beahm's vs Montana adventure:
1. Backpacking & Hiking through snow drifts in July!
2. Having Melissa ask for the camera instead of the bear spray when we saw the bear
3. Constant rain for almost 36 hours while backpacking
4. Using the 40 degree water as a natural refrigerator
5. Watching and waiting as the Big-Horn Sheep stopped and redirected traffic
6. Sunrise: 4:23 AM, Sunset 9:43 PM. REALLY LONG DAYS!!
7. Huckleberries (yes, like in Yogi Bear Cartoons). Melissa loves the Huckleberry Icecream
8. Killing Mosquitoes in a hotel room we stayed in
9. Fording a waist deep river (did I say the water was 40 degrees?)
10. Enjoying glacier green colored lakes below beautiful snow and glacier covered mountains

There are 305 pictures (that's purged from 512) from the trip. Since no one would sit through a slide show like that, I've picked around the top 75. I'm embedding the pictures into the blog from picasa. You can go to http://picasaweb.google.com/cmbunc if you are having trouble seeing them with the flash slideshow.



Thanks and hope you enjoy the pictures!