Day 141 – 9/10/13 -11.2 mi (2594)

The trail out from East Glacier was much better than the last bit, and we got a glimpse of the beautiful scenery that’s coming.

Due to permit availability, we have really easy days all the way to Canada, which we will reach on September 16. All we had to do today was walk 11 miles in time to pick up our permit at the Two Medicine ranger station. Naturally, we got there minutes before closing.

Ranger Jenny was very patient with our endless questions (we have a standard list of questions for rangers, such as “have you ever a actually seen buried toilet paper dug up by animal?”). We had to watch a bear safety video and pass a verbal quiz before being issues our permit.

There is a camp store at Two Medicine where Sweetfish was planning to resupply, rather than carry food that 11 miles from East Glacier. Turns out the camp store closed for the season 2 days ago. Now off-duty Jenny was kind enough to run Sweetfish into East Glacier to pick up his rations of ramen and candy.

When they returned she stayed and hung out for a while. We talked a lot about bears and poop. It was a good time!