Across the country- Day 4 Lake Sherburne

Day 4

We started off going back to Browning and St Mary to go on a boat ride on Lake Sherburne.  For those that know the area or have a map in front of them, we are going through a the town of Babb population of 146!

Driving along we have wonderful views!

As we approach the Lake we are going to the Many Glacirer Lodge which was built by the railroad around 1910 . They had a fire around 1930 and the crew of the hotel stayed behind fighting the fire with fire hoses. The guests had all been evacuated by the Red Jammers which are car/mini bus that held 17 that had been their only a year.  When the crew called back to the home base in Chicago that they had saved the hotel, the question that came back was "Why"?  It was in the depression and they weren't making any money at that time. 

We took an old boat that was built in the 30's now a diesel from gas down the lake..  And of course the glaciers . The continental divide has three peaks that the water will take for its path to the ocean. We were on the Hudson  peak.  So this means that the water flows to the Hudson Bay and out the Arctic.   The Harrison Glacier is the biggest and there is Gem Glacier the 3rd largest.   Gem Glacier flows through the mountains and to the East. There are only about 25 glaciers left in the park and they feel by 2020 they will be gone.
We then walked through the woods hoping not to meet a bear,
As we get onto the next boat (the fuel is brought up every day -about 7 gals)  to travel around Lake Josephine,

 Ahead of us is The Salamander Glacier  . The snows are 300 feet deep and was formed about 1500. ( known as the " the little ice age that turned into the new glacier) A glacier by definition is a moving mass of ice.  There were 150 glaciers then and now we are down to 25 and the scientists feel by 2020 the glaciers will be gone.

As we get onto the next boat to travel around Lake Josephine we  come across a cow moose. 

We then walked through the woods hoping not to meet a bear.  My pictures shows Bear grass but the Bears don't like it. It only blooms every 6 years and we are the lucky ones to see it!

As we hike back to the lodge to have lunch we have a look through the woods at the Lodge and in the distance on the cliffs you can see the red rock with its agalite.
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.  Eamon can't wait to go horse-back riding... "Is it time yet?"  We finished lunch and walked out the door to find it raining.  Poor Eamon. He was so upset. They were willing to take us, but it wouldn't have been fun in the rain and cold,
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Back to the hotel.
  The temperature was dropping and we had a few snowflakes during dinner,

Tomorrow we move out to Yellowstone on an all day drive.
 See you tomorrow......