The ride from Missoula to Glacier NP on Wednesday the 19th was beautiful with no indication I was headed into a smoky nightmare.
Once I got into the park the smoke from the surrounding fires and the car traffic affected the Impact of this beautiful park for me.
I was fortunate to ride all the way through the park as the road had been closed earlier for fire fighter access.
Heading into Canada I mistakenly took Hwy 89 instead of 17 and crossed into Canada about 15 miles east of were I originally planned which brought me into Cardston Alberta.
I found a great camping spot there and headed back over to Waterton Lakes NP on Thursday the 20th.
Waterton Lakes is the Canadian side off Glacier NP.
I didn't enter the park after seeing the limited visibility from the fires.
Instead I proceeded up through Pincher Creek, to Crowsnest Pass, on to Cranbrook to Moyie Lake and back to the USA on the 95 into Idaho!
Canada is a great place to ride and people are very nice!
The smoke was very thick in Idaho and got progressively thicker as I headed back to Montana.
Stayed in Bigfork MT next to Flathead lake for the night, then on Friday the 21st I headed south on 83 past Seely Lake and on to Great Falls trying to out run the smoke.
Beautiful place to ride and the lakes are gorgeous!
The rest of the day was spent hammering out miles trying to get to clean air.
Found a motor lodge in Glasgow MT were the air is much cleaner and you actually see the sun!
Saturday morning I head to the Black Hills of South Dakota my home state!
Found this crazy museum in Polson, MT.
There is a little bit of everything there!
Yep they have those too!
There on a 4.5 month tour to Chile.
Good luck on your "Epic Ride"!
On the Going to the Sun Road!
The toast was great!
Yes that is a real person standing by the back tire!
Worlds largest truck located in Sparwood, BC.
This little bridge is in Canada.
that's too bad about the smoke, I wish I was with you on the ride.
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