Honeymoon West

We were married in the spring of 1967 the Saturday after summer vacation began from our high school teaching jobs.  Two days later summer session began at the University of Minnesota where I was pursuing my Masters Degree. When first session ended in mid July we headed west for a five weeks camping trip to Yellowstone, Glacier, and the Canadian Rockies.  Having recently converted some of our old Ectachrome slides to digital lets take a slightly faded look....

Here in Glacier National Park there were still hundreds of glaciers.  Sadly most are gone now.

 

Naturally,  I liked to take photographs  of my beautiful bride.  It was, after all, our honeymoon .  Still,  the West was magnificent.  Full of beautiful  landscapes and lots of  the wild animals.

"Bear jams", of course, are a thing of the past.

New policies on garbage collection eventually made it safer for both bears and tourist.

Back then, though the interaction between people and wildlife was often quite close as this young grizzly bear showed when he approached our car.  As this pictures shows when the new Mrs. T snapped a picture, screamed and then threw herself into my arms for protection. Yah sure. Or as she said recently seeing this picture for the first time in forty some years,  "in your dreams Troutbirder...."

Along the Columbia Parkway and the Bow River in Alberta, Canada

We did a trail ride on horseback up to Cameron Falls in Waterton Lakes  Provincial Park across the international border from Glacier.

 

Ah! To be that young and full of promise.  We've had a good ride though.....