Long, long days up here in Alberta. We went to bed last night at 10 PM and it was still light out, somewhat. And this is the end of July. The days must be short in December. The word for the day is GLACIERS. And we saw LOTS of them today. We left the hotel this morning at 8:35 and 50 degrees (which bottomed out at 46 and a 20 MPH wind.) We did see 58 at times, but not often. The weather was mostly overcast with some rain. We spent a good deal of time in the clou...

We climbed into the car this morning at 7:45 and 50 degrees, with partly sunny skies and headed for the border. As we drove north, we were surrounded by mountains on three sides, the east, the north and the west. The ridge on the east was couched in a purple haze, as the sun shone from behind and the one in the north had clouds hugging tightly along the peaks. And as we left Kalispel, we discovered that it had grown exponentially since our last visit two years...