The Libby Dam

The Libby Dam is located on the Kootenai Lake and spills into the Kootenai River.  Right now the river and lake are high due to the snow melting in the mountains and the extra rain this area has received this year.  Corey and I made an early morning trip to the dam today because I have to work tonight.  We took plenty of pictures!

 The views are amazing here!

 Notice that this sign says that the dam is only 1.88 feet down from being full!  Can you believe that?  We saw a couple at the dam that said that they visited one month ago and it was 70 feet down from being full!  They own property here and have never seen the dam as high as it is right now.

 Corey took a picture of his "racing charger"  he loves his car, but misses his motorcycle! LoL!

 The third flag is the Canadian flag.  We are so far north that everywhere we go we see the Canadian flag hanging with the American flag as well as Montana's flag.  I am not sure what the fourth flag is though.



Trip to Kalispell

Kalispell, MT is the closet town to Libby that has a Wal-Mart, so today Corey and I made the 90 mile trip just to get some groceries.  We were told that the drive would be beautiful with a lot of wildlife.  The view are amazing, which made the drive seem faster, but the wildlife must have been hiding because Corey only saw one moose and I didn't see even an animal at all.  We also visited the Glacier Harley Davidson store and a scrub shop. Haha!

There are several lakes on the way to Kalispell.  This is a small pond compared to the others we saw.  There were so many campsites with RV's on the lakes.  Corey and I are so excited about getting an RV to travel in.

This picture is through the windshild and is the mountains past Kalispell, we are just about to the town.



The Swinging Bridge

When Corey and I asked around town what sites to go see, the first thing we were told by everyone was the swinging bridge.  Our first reaction was, that would be crazy to go on a swinging bridge, plus it is a pretty far hike to get to the bridge.  So we decided on my first day off that we would check this famous bridge the goes over the Kootenai River.  Of course I love to read the history of the names of places and how they came about so the first picture is of a sign explaining where the name Kootenai.  (Kootenai is pronounced Kootenee)

This is Corey and I posing on a look-out on the trail on the way to the swinging bridge.

There is a bridge that goes over railroad tracks.  As soon as we got across a train came through.

This is a view from the trail.

Corey actually got onto the swinging bridge.  The sign on the bridge says that there is a 5 person limit.



This is a view of the rushing Kootenai river below the swinging bridge.

Can you believe how beautiful the views are?

This is the sun setting.  Can you believe the sun set at 10:00

p.m. here, since we are so far north? 

Here is Corey with his racing Charger and the sunset in the background.