{"id":2423,"date":"2017-08-23T01:26:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2017-08-23T01:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:26:43","slug":"kayaking-the-flathead-river-glacier-national-park-montana-what-i-did-for-my-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/kayaking-the-flathead-river-glacier-national-park-montana-what-i-did-for-my-summer-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking the Flathead River, Glacier National Park, Montana: What I Did for My Summer Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I feel sorry for my lonely blog in the summer months, as I&#8217;m scrambling around the country and doing various other things than spending time on the computer, but I&#8217;m back at work (and on my laptop) once again and can report that a good time was had by all\u2014or all those I was around, at least. In June I spent two weeks up in northern Montana, kayaking (and rafting) the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, on the western border of Glacier National Park. It was lovely. Here&#8217;s a photo of the wildflowers in one of our riverside camps:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2424\" title=\"DSC00244\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC00244-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a cold, swift river, with the mountains looming in the distance. One of the highlights of the trip was a stopover at Polebridge, a village of sorts near the river, which has both a saloon and a bakery famous for its Huckleberry Bear Claws.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2425\" title=\"DSC00308\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC00308-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a hoot. We spent the afternoon playing cards and volleyball and the kids loved it, so for a &#8220;bar&#8221; it was pretty family friendly. I noticed this sign and tried to use the side door, but couldn&#8217;t find it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2426\" title=\"DSC00311\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC00311-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><br \/>\nOspreys and Bald Eagles flew over our heads. We locked up all of our food at night and saw and heard no grizzlies, but at one point were serenaded by a Screech Owl. Most of the landscape looked something like this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2427\" title=\"DSC00379\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC00379-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2428\" title=\"DSC00317\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC00317-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I feel sorry for my lonely blog in the summer months, as I&#8217;m scrambling around the country and doing various other things than spending time on the computer, but I&#8217;m back at work (and on my laptop) once again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/kayaking-the-flathead-river-glacier-national-park-montana-what-i-did-for-my-summer-vacation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[87,94,178],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-west","tag-flathead-river","tag-glacier-national-park","tag-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}