- july 15-24
- ✔ get there on the train
- leave emeryville on coast starlight thursday night 10 pm
- stop in portland to stay overnight friday
- this way you can be sure you don't miss a connection
- also don't sleep two consecutive nights on the train
- couchsurf overnight
- go to grüner, genie's, maybe pok pok or something
- maybe pick up some beer
- take empire builder, end up in west glacier Sunday morning
- is a car needed to get around?
- jeanne says YES
- could get car in whitefish, drop off at airport
- also car lets you have a more free schedule
- do things in glacier Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat
- drive/shuttle going-to-the-sun road
- one of these backpacks at least
- dawson-pitamakan has beautiful skywalks, can be done as a 1, 2, or 3 day trip, 20 miles total
- gunsight-macdonald requires some trickery with the park shuttle, might be essentially a 3-day trip, 20 miles total
- day hikes
- definite
- triple divide peak, 14 miles.... only place in the world where two continental divides meet! from cut bank creek trailhead
- grinnell glacier, 10 miles ... also find out what this "angel wing" is
- possible
- many glacier to ptarmigan tunnel then iceberg lake, 15 miles
- highline trail to granite park to the loop, 11 miles... return on park shuttle
- cracker lake, 12 miles... supposed to be nicest lake, but trail has lots of horse footprints and poop
- logan pass to many glacier, take shuttle in morning then hike 15 miles (or as a two-day backpack)
- definite
- spend one day just like sitting by a lake and not hiking and feeling great being in nature and resting your legs
- some restaurant that has like elk sausage lasagna or gigantic steaks or huckleberry pie or some similar thing that makes you feel like you're in montana or some shit
- polebridge -- hippie-ish community, cabins, norther lights restaurant (megan recommends)
- drive to canada?
- ✔ drive to airport, fly back Sunday
- kalispell
- maybe try to find that restaurant ian likes with fresh elk sausage fennel lasagna because I have heard that story 32 times and it only sounds more delicious with each retelling
- kalispell airport
- not as far as missoula (33 miles / 1 hour)
- may have direct flights to SFO on summer weekends
- still get to see some of america
- I like the name kalispell
- why am I making a pro/con list when I will just go with what is cheaper when I remember to buy tickets
- kalispell
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