St. Mary, Montana

Today was a moving day, from the heavily used and touristy west side to the more isolated east side. Before we left we stocked up on groceries from the huge supermarket that was about nine miles from our campsite. The closest grocery store from where we are now, in St. Mary, is thirty miles in Browning, on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, IGA.

The weather is also about 30 degrees colder here; we had to put on our down jackets and hoods in order to unhitch in the 42 degree weather. But, we are close to the Two Medicine and Many Glacier areas of Glacier National Park and the premiere hiking is over on this side.

Pictures from the road -

A park tour boat heading for its winter vacation.

South side of Glacier.

Trees beginning to turn color.

The railroad is an ever present, and busy, presence in the west, here and in Canada.

As we headed east the landscape suddenly turned flat, like the plains in North Dakota.

Bison on the hills.

I think you can tell the difference between bison and cows by the way they look when you see them grazing on the hills. Bison are more bunched together while cows spread out in the pasture.