Today we decided to cross the mountains to see the East side of Glacier National Park. In the summer you would normally take the “Going to the Sun” historic scenic road but couldn’t as we described in our early post. Our route took us US-2 over the mountains and then MT-49 to the village of East Glacier. The MT-49 route was very scenic. East Glacier was virtually silent with few (or none) restaurants or stores open. We ate our sack lunch at the St Mary’s Visitor Center on the way into the park. It was good that we packed our sack lunch because we didn’t see any likely place to eat anywhere on the East side of the mountains. We drove the East end of the “Going to the Sum” road from the very small town of St Mary, along the St Mary Lake, to the St Mary Falls. The views of the mountains were fantastic and the St Mary’s falls were great. At one of the roadside stops Donna and others spotted a Long Tailed Weasel run across the parking lot and into the woods. After St Mary, we continued North a little further to the Manny Glacier Road. Again the scenery was fantastic with the glacial lake framed by the glacial mountains that created all of this. On the way back Donna and I spotted Big Horn Sheep on the side of the mountain with our binoculars. Manny Glacier, like most of the glaciers in the park, is almost totally gone. The park predicts by 2020 Glacier National Park will no longer have any glaciers at all. It was getting late so we decided to take the fast, less scenic, MT-89 route back home. We stopped in the small town of Browning for a sandwich at Subway. Browning is in the Blackfoot Indian reservation and most people we saw appeared to be of Native Indian ancestry. The weather today was in the mid-50’s to low 60’s and mostly sunny. It was super nice for site-seeing.