I was so impressed--the entire family arrived in the Many Glaciers Lodge lobby by the dot of 4 p.m., July 7, 2017, as instructed and promised! The boat tour was our last Reunion event together, since Camille's and Jonny's families began the drive back to SLC after the boat tour ended, while the rest of us returned to Whitefish for one more day.
Wandering the Many Glaciers Lodge was an adventure, itself. "It reminds me of the hotel in that horror movie, 'The Shining,'" Dave said. Many Glaciers Lodge was more than 100 years old, and was built when railroad companies constructed huge, classic lodges to house the new, upscale vacationers who traveled by train. It is open only four months per year, in the summer, and is overseen in the off months by one couple, all alone in that moldering building. Scary!
We traveled in a vintage wooden boat across two lakes, linked by a 15-minute hiking trail.
Our boat pilot told us about the history of the area and the animals who live here. Grizzly bears are bigger than black bears and have flatter noses. Black bears aren't necessarily black--a family of blond black bears lives near one of the Glacier campgrounds. Our boat was originally dragged to the second, remote lake across the snow, in the winter, winched from tree to tree.
The scenery was so breathtaking that Dave and I later bought a photograph of this lake to remind us of the Reunion. Mike and his varsity hikers were familiar with the chain of lakes we sailed across. They had looked down upon them from the ridge trails they hiked along.
We said fond goodbyes to the Eberts and the Jonny Spendlove family, and resolved to meet again often, including at the 2019 Spendlove Reunion in Vancouver!
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