Road Trip [cont. 4]

After staying an extra day in Magrath, we left early Tuesday morning to drop my sister off in Missoula. She had to fly home for their trek, so my mom and I finished the trip by ourselves. To get to Missoula though, we had a couple options. First was the way we came, around Glacier NP, or straight through it. I wanted to go through it, my mom did not. My thought is how could you not go through it, its so pretty. My mom was terrified to drive over Going to the Sun Pass, but knew I would look around to much to trust me to drive. It literally took us up to the entrance of the park to decide. And into the park we went. Its a pretty small road, but since they were doing construction, it was one way at a time for a lot of the really scary parts. Unfortunately it was cloudy and raining at the top (and very cold) so we will have to brave the pass another time when we can look around and enjoy its beauty. Courtney and I were very excited. My mom was not. The East side of the park was not so bad. The road was fine and the visibility was good. You couldn't see the tops of the mountains, but you could tell its gorgeous and majestic. I was, however, the only one brave enough to get out at the top. It was really cold and I had to ask some other people, to take my picture. Once we left the pass to go down the other side, it got a little scary. The cloud cover was really thick and low and you could barely see the front of the car, let alone the road. This is where the panic really set in for my mom and all fun was gone. Instead of helping her see the road, I decided to take pictures when I could. Its really a good thing I wasn't driving, I would have been very distracted! They were also doing a lot of construction on the road, so it wasn't all paved, nor was there a guard rail. And it was raining. It may have been a good thing we couldn't see more or we would have been more scared of the cliffs of death. The Weeping wall
We made it back to Portland the next day, and thus concluded our beautiful rooad trip.