Apgar Village Inn. Every room faces Lake McDonald.
We cruised through 10 miles of smoke on Lake McDonald.
Ok visibility at Apgar.
Labor Day weekend crowd.
Glacier National Park t-shirts. i teach the Disney Compass which is part of the Customer architecture.
Glacier National Park t-shirts. Howard likes the left one. The right one reminds me of Disney.
Glacier National Park statistics.
A t-shirt and a post card showcasing the view on a clear day.
Glacier National Park t-shirt – seems to smile from up top.
Same t-shirt – seems to frown from the bottom.
Glacier National Park t-shirt – founded 1910.
In Apgar Village there’s one restaurant and one ice cream shop. They share the same name, Eddie’s. Huckleberry pictured above.
Howard telling stories.
Howard is a quiet guy in general.
Sperry Chalet fire 2017 – from GNP FB page.
Sperry Chalet fire 2017 – from GNP FB page.
The right glow is closer than i remember it last night. Look carefully in the upper middle left and you may notice two light spots – fire on Mt Brown.
In a perfect world, we’ll get 5.5 hours sleep. It wasn’t a perfect world last night.
The fire on Mt Brown (left side of photo) is raging 11 miles away. The right glow started mildly concerning us.
We became mesmerized at the fire trying to breach the ridge (a couple miles away. With high winds coming at us, we agreed to be ready at any time to jump in the car.
Foreground: the two balcony chairs outside our window.
As we retired to our room from a wonderfully relaxing day, and crawled into bed, we watched the fire grow in intensity and wondered if the Canadian cold front winds could push the fire to our hotel before dawn.
We watched the “show” for three hours until 11PM.
At 10PM, we stepped outside to try “one more time” to get a photo that did justice to what we saw with the naked eye.
Panic.
Our door shut and neither one of us had a key.
Lake McDonald’s waves now had white caps crashing the shore and i wore nothing but running shorts.
Unless another Guest invited Howard and i to sleep in their room, i pictured hypothermia.
i also knew we’d miss our 3:45AM drive to the airport.
i witnessed my third “save” in less than a week.
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The significance to me of the first three photos cannot be overstated.
The Last Lecture is one of two books i read in 2008 that convinced me to retire from Disney and start my own business.
i purchased this same two-dimensional map last Summer for the very fact that it isn’t one-dimensional. It exemplifies Glacier’s big picture, grandeur, and context as the Crown of The Continent.
Daisies are our (me and Cheryl) favorite flower.
Photo/painting on the wall is from the St. Mary Chalets from the 1930’s. They are long gone and few know they ever existed. But i know. Photo: Upstairs bedroom.
This may be the last time we see Lake McDonald Lodge and adjacent private cabins. The severely close fire and wind have no mercy and no emotional attachment. Photo from upstairs bedroom.
Geared up for battle.
Panorama from second-floor bedroom.
Cozy and Lodge-like.
The “Z” door (right) leads to a small bedroom with two twin beds and best view in the cabin.
Upstairs bedroom has private bath and one full-size bed.
Upstairs bedroom window. Lake McDonald Lodge Marina is 200 meters to the left.
Downstairs bathroom/shower, accessible from Kitchen and the larger bedroom.
Downstairs bathroom/shower accessible from kitchen and downstairs bedroom.
Best views in the cabin come from the third (and smallest) bedroom, adjacent to the living room.
Small bedroom has two twin beds and an awesome picture window.
Smallest bedroom is quaint, simple, and has views unavailable anywhere else.
The interior wall of the smaller bedroom.
From a bed in the smaller bedroom, looking into the living room.
Living room is exceptionally warm and inviting.
There a dining table left corner above, as well as one in the kitchen too.
