Ok, we know what you’re thinking. We’ve been the worst bloggers. Ever. But truth be told we’ve been super busy being one, and two, with nature. And nature doesn’t seem to be down with wifi. There goes our influencer status.

We arrived at Montana’s golden child, Glacier National Park, after a 6.5 hour drive. And were greeted by…cows.

We moo-ved our way to our campsite. We booked two nights right outside East Glacier at our new bestie, a KOA. There’s something so welcoming about a KOA. The hot shower. The general store. The wifi. The pool. The price.

Neither of us had ever been to Glacier, but we’d heard great things about it. So we were super excited to explore. We’ve been approaching our national park dating life by having one big hike in mind, but really just letting nature take its course.

Well, turns out the one hike we wanted to do in Glacier didn’t really want to see us. It was closed due to snow on the trail.

Alright, plan B. The morning after our arrival, we hit up the visitors center to get advice from the pros. They recommended the area of Many Glacier and to hike part of the way to the Grinnell Glacier. Emphasis on part of the way. Again, the snow played a bit of a cock block on our plans, so we could only hike to where the trail was closed.

The hike itself was gorgeous in the ways that are iconic to Glacier. Big mountain money shots with glacial lakes and lush vegetation.

Aka prime territory for bears. And by bears, I mean grizzly bears. About 2.5 miles into our hike, we rounded the corner and met a woman and her son. They quickly informed us to not go up ahead as a grizzly and her cub were on the trail. Enough said. Guess when you see these signs, they are actually serious. Noted.

Well, at least we had them take our picture. It’s the least we could do for them saving our lives. Right?

Shortened hike and grizzly encounter avoided, we ventured on over to the Going-to-the-Sun Road. This hot piece of asphalt stretches right through the center of Glacier and has many pullouts and hikes along the way. So we drove, like everyone else, along this cool road and saw some really amazing views.

Being from Minnesota, I was never exposed to mountains. Shocker. I mean we do have Mt. Kato, don’t be jealous, but still, not the same as Glacier-style mountains.

One thing I will say about Glacier is that it’s hard to find nice loop hikes. Most of them are one-way, long hikes. Which works great when they have their free shuttle service going on, but we just missed it by a week. And since we aren’t big pimpin’ with two rental cars, we stuck to short jaunts off the main road.

Glacier sure showed us a pretty time, but we were moving on to greener pastures in Montana.

We headed down to Bozeman to meet up with an old college friend of mine. Mr. Robert Richardson is probably the nicest person I’ve ever met (and I know Minnesota-Nice type of people). It was amazing to see that he married the nicest girl, Jen. No surprise. They showed us a rocking good time and let us crash at their beautiful home for the night (and gave us a local huckleberry ice cream sandwich). Best hosts. I’m leaving them a 5-star Yelp review.

Don’t tell the other cities we’ve been to, but Bozeman is fucking cool. It has that small-town vibe but with the mountains and lots of bars and restaurants. Dare we say, we could see ourselves moving there. I know what you’re thinking…”so fucking typical, Britt & Craig.”

Where will we roam to next? A place filled with stones of yellow and teets that are oh-so grand. Why not Wyoming? Ok, we’re coming for ya.