OK, I've realizes a third flaw when blogging, camping and traveling. Turns out Canada is another country and I don't have an international cell phone plan - go figure! Verizon would have been happy to sell me time, minutes, data plan or something, but I just turned everything off. We're now back in the States and I'll briefly catch up.

Friday morning we left the Many Glaciers lodge.

As we were driving out of the park, once again cars were parked on the side of the road and a black bear was lumbering along on the far side of the river. Again, too far away for a picture, but I think she was telling us good bye.

We then headed out of Glacier and went north to go to Waterton Park in Canada. It was a beautiful drive with the Plains to our right and the mountains to our left. When we got to Waterton, we found the only camp area still open in the park, but they had lots of spots available. This camp area is not very pretty itself, few trees, lots and lots of RVs and trailers, but the view of the mountains and lake were fabulous.

It was late in the day so we did a short hike (1.5 miles round trip) up Bear's Hump. From there you get a great view of the town and Prince of Whales Hotel.

The wind was whipping, but we managed to not get blown off.

That evening Steve made a wonderful dinner.

And we went on a short walk to some nearby water falls.

Saturday morning we took a short cruise to the other side of  the lake to hike to Crypt's Lake, an 11 mile round trip hike. When we had been hiking in Glacier lots of folks had bear bells (including me) as they hiked to "warn" the bears that  humans we're coming. Steve said he thought it was just the dinner bell for the bears. I liked wearing mine. Anyway, the boat captain made an announcement about how to stay safe in Bear Country. Yup, you guessed it, he made fun of bear bells! I was crushed! But, then he went on to say that what bears really don't like are songs by Barry Manilow. I then spent most of the hike trying to think of his songs - and failed miserably.

There are 4 waterfalls along the way

A ladder

A tunnel

And a steep climb with a cable to hold on to

To get to the lake.

But, it was gorgeous and Steve got to try out his new water filtration gadget.

The hike back was just as pretty. I like up-and-back hikes; I see things that I don't see hiking in.

The boat was back at 5:30 to pick us all up and back to camp we went for a spaghetti dinner and sleep. One thing different we noticed about camping and hiking in Canada were the number of dogs.  They were everywhere, but incredibly well behaved! We hardly ever heard one bark, even when deer were wondering in the camp park. Steve thinks we should send Sadie up here for some lessons; I'm afraid it's just us. 

Sunday morning we had a nice leisurely morning, enjoying our coffee and breakfast. We loaded up the Beast and headed south to Yellowstone. We got to the North Gate at about 8 pm and the ranger said all the campgrounds were full. But, he told us of a nearby camp area in National Forest lands. We found it, had a well deserved glass of wine (or two) a tuna fish sandwich and bed.

This morning we woke up to very cloudy, inclement looking day. Not sure what will do...