2026 Road Trip - Day 20
Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026 - Today was going to be ONLY a hiking day, but I realized that I needed to be in the hotel room at 10:30 this morning (for Thursday Men's Breakfast responsibilities). So, between 7:30 and 10:30 I actually drove northwest and grabbed 6 Post Offices. After the hotel, I drove up to the
Bowman Lake Campground in
Glacier National Park:
6 Post Offices (plus 1 closed one) - like driving the Providence-Springfield-Boston area:
The morning light on
Dickey Lake is lovely:
When I was up in
Eureka, I saw some elk - and they saw me!
Hey, sometimes the roads are NOWHERE NEAR DONE:
Driving north to the northwest entrance to
Glacier National Park, you go alongside the
North Fork Flathead River:
I entered
Glacier National Park at 12:30
It was another 1/2 hour to get up to the
Bowman Lake Campground:
My Map:
And off we go! Beautiful shots from the bridge in this 1st photo
I made the right-hand turn to take the trail up-and-over to
Lower Quartz Lake:
I crossed over a lovely bridge at the
Lower Quartz Lake Campground:
MASSIVE OVERGROWTH on this back-side trail up to
Quartz Lake:
A nice shot back down at
Middle Quartz Lake:
I reached
Quartz Lake at 4:30 (3-and-1/2 hours, 7.2 miles) - I had 2nd-lunch next to a family of birds, so it is nice to include them in the "money shot":
From there it was 6.6 miles up-over-and-down to the
Bowman Lake Campground:
Bowman Lake at the end of the day:
I hiked 13.82 miles in 6 hours 24 minutes:
Drove home in the gloaming-and-the-dark, and spoke with Wendy when I finally got a signal at 9 PM (11 PM for her). 236 miles driving, and 6 Post Office (plus 1 closed one) - Thank you God for this wonderful MONTANA Adventure-and-Hiking Day!
Music for today:
Hotel room - The Rolling Stones -
The Rolling Stones, Now!, 1965 3rd album, last heard in a blog never - Their version of Bo Diddley's "Mona" is fabulous:
Time to hit The Road:
Neil Young -
Hitchiker, recorded 1976, released 2017, last heard never. Wonderful collect of acoustic material, almost all of which has appeared across many albums - sounds great as a single album:
Neil Young -
Trans, 1982 album, last heard in a blog never. And from Neil Young Acoustic, we travel to Neil Young Voice Synthesiser (I do like old weird Neil):
Poco -
Setlist: The Very Best of Poco LIVE, 2011 album, last heard never. Nice sounding material - I have to check out the tracks versus DeLIVErin':
Seatbelts -
Cowboy Bebop Vitaminless, 1998 soundtrack album, last heard never. FUN jazz-etc material from "Cowboy Bebop", a WONDERFUL anime that Wendy and I enjoy:
Seatbelts -
Cowboy Bebop, 1998 soundtrack album, last heard 9/13/2025. I liked that other album so much, I wanted to listen to "the first album" - SO COOL:
Steely Dan -
Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!, 2021 live album, last heard never. I love Steely Dan, and I saw them up in New Hampshire right around this time. The Doobie Brothers opened, and did a WONDERFUL JOB - Donald Fagen and The Band (the Steely Dan Band, not "The Band" band) came out and WERE SO PUMPED that they did a GREAT SHOW (the only downside was having to drive 2 hours home afterwards):
Ten Years After -
Cricklewood Green, 1970 album, last heard in a blog never. I saw Ten Years After at The Boston Tea Party in February 1970, and they played a lot of the songs on this album. Still sounds great:
The Moody Blues -
Legend of a Band, 1989 greatest hits album, last heard 7/02/2025. How can I not play "Tuesday Afternoon" today???
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine/New York:
hyperlink:
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http://dixonheadingnorth.blogspot.com/
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