St Mary, MT


Over a huge breakfast at the Johnston’s Cafe we planned the day’s activities. Continuing high winds made us decide not to risk taking the Going to the Sun highway so we went horseback riding instead.

Ruth rode “Smokey” and Martin rode “Larry the Cable Guy” for an hour and a half accompanied by two guides, Chum the cow herding dog and a white pony that left its grazing ground and followed us on our outing. The landscape was breathtaking.

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By late afternoon the winds had died down and we drove the west part of the Going to the Sun highway to Logan’s pass. The landscape was just beautiful and at the visitor centre we encountered a big horn sheep and very curious Columbian ground squirrels.

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We had dinner at a Mexican canteen run by Blackfoot indians and then spent a second night at Johnston’s Campground.

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