Montana, big sky country

I have been offline for a few days. I spent the last 5 nights in Montana. I picked up Ginger in Helena on Tuesday and we stayed at my friend's vacation home outside of the city. We had a relaxing night and watched rainstorms from the deck. Wednesday morning we woke up to the sunrise and hit the road for Glacier NP. Glacier was amazing and disappointing at the same time. They have had record snowstorms and weather this year and the main scenic route through the park was still snowed in. We stayed in the northeast section of the park, called Many Glacier, for two nights and were hit with wild rain and windstorms. The trails were washed out and we spent a lot of time indoors reading and wishing the conditions were different. We had about 40 mph winds for 24 hours straight with gusts around 60 mph. The pictures and video show how windy it was.
We left for the west side of the park on Friday and found some sunshine, but they still had been hit with rain, and the first trail we hiked was closed. We had only done flat lakeside hikes and missed the wonderful backcountry and glaciers that make the park so amazing.
More tomorrow...