Wednesday, September 12, 2012

RoadTrip: been in the Crowsnest Pass Area, heading back to Waterton, then US

6PM 9/10/2012
Hi Gary,
I'm in Port Townsend on the Olympic Penninsula right now.
They don't have a card reader so I can't send photos.
I loved Mt. Rainier and also went to Mt. St. Helens.
Where are you?  Hope you are safe and having fun!
Sandy

4PM 9/12/2012
Hi Sandy,
I've been hanging out in the Crowsnest Pass area in the Canadian Rockies north of Waterton,  Today I think I'm heading back to Waterton for a few days before crossing back into the US.

Hopefully I'll be let back into the US!

Into Canada I got a bit hassled, they searched my car.  The guy said they were concerned because I was "rootless" (no obligations that would keep me from potentially staying in Canada.)  They gave me a special certificate that said I could not take a job or go to school here, and I would have to leave within 10 days, which is 5 days from now.

Sheesh!

After you headed west, I stayed in the Many Glacier area a few more days, doing all the hikes as far as I could in one day - to two of the same passes as I did from the Going to the Sun road, and Redrock Pass that is further west on the ridge as the "tunnel" (forget the name) towards Lk Elizabeth.

When I get back into the US I'll probably spend a few more days in Glacier then head a bit south into the Bob Marshall Wilderness hopefully doing a two to four day backpack along the "Chinese Wall" that's supposed to be a spectacular part of the Continental Divide Trail.

Then I'll have to decide whether I have time to head south again into Colorado or start heading east.   I suspect I will have to go east.
Gary

10AM 9/20/2012
Hi gar bear,
I am using a touch screen at bend Oregon visitor center.
Looking at the town as place to settle some point.
Canada sucks at the border. They hasseled me, too.
I just finished circumnavigating the Olympic peninsula.
More later and photos.
Sandy

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