High Ground #27

Jon went to Santa Fe for High Ground #27. This is the 27^th year of the High Ground Design Conversation and the second year we held it in Santa Fe. It was good to see old friends and make some new ones.

Glacier National Park Bike Trip

We had such a good time last year on our Backroads trip to Southern Utah, that we decided to do another -- this time to Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada. The trip took about a week and was a Backroads Multi-Adventure trip, meaning that we rode e-bikes, hiked, and did whitewater rafting. We stayed in a number of national park lodges and, in Canada, at the Waterton Lakes national park's Prince of Wales Lodge. We saw quite a bit of wildlife including bald eagles, moose, bear, deer, and chipmonks (a little too close for Care's comfort). There was lots of good scenery including the Going-To-The-Sun Road - which we traversed in the Backroad vans. We rafted down the Flathead River, next to a very busy set of BSNF railroad tracks. On the trip, we crossed the US Canadian Border and the Continental Divide. We got to experience Northern Montana, a beautiful and wild part of the country. We went with sisters Jane and Sara and their husbands and were also joined by a couple who was on our previous Backroads trip. We had a group of 20 guests and 3 guides and Backroads took great care of us.

While hiking the Bear's Hump Trail in Waterton Lakes National Park, we encountered a bear at 2:04 on the timelapse video below. He looked like a juvenile bear and ran off into the bushes without confronting us.