our plans to visit glacier national park were foiled twice over. firstly, there are hundreds of forest fires burning in both the usa & canada [ the smoke impedes the views of the park's famed mountains ] & second, this is glacier national park's busiest year on record. thirty percent busier than the busiest year they'd had prior to this [ which was last year ] which meant that the camp grounds were one hundred percent full. why was this a problem? well, it takes eight hours just to get through the park. & that doesn't include stops at viewpoints or time spent hiking. this is straight driving. without the ability to stop to spend the night part way it didn't make any sense for us to make the drive up to canada through the park [ which was our intention ]. so, instead, we made the decision to plug in the shortest route to fernie, bc & make our way back to canada [ to renew my passport ].
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