The drive up through Yellowstone, while it was pretty, was also still filled with snow in the higher elevations. Some of the snow was still more than 8 ft deep and due to the melting, there were many places that were flooded. The picture below of Old Faithful reminded us of three years ago when we stopped on our way back from Alaska, of all of these thousands of tourists stopping to see Old Faithful erupt.
After leaving Yellowstone National Park we drove on up into Montana and stopped in Helena, the capital of Montana. The capitol building is pretty plain and simple as you can see in the picture below but was decorated quite nicely on the inside.
After leaving Helena and the state capitol building, we headed on up to Uncle Bob's and Aunt Danni's place for the start of our family reunion. Now there's a few things you have to know about Uncle Bob to really appreciate this family reunion. Uncle Bob is a career retired Marine colonel, a smokejumper for forest fires and now he is a Sheriff Deputy that also does search and rescue. He is the county coroner for Missoula County so, as he puts it, you're not dead until he says you are dead. Consequently, Uncle Bob has a lot of interesting stories. His career allows him to introduce several other items for entertainment such as axe throwing small arms target shooting, high powered rifle target shooting and numerous hikes very close to their home.
Axe throwing
On the trail to Holland Falls
On the trail to Glacier Lake
The trails, the lakes and the falls are all within 10 to 15 minutes of Uncle Bob's house
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