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re: Glacier National Park gear

Posted by tigertail34 on 5/26/25 at 10:01 pm
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We are going the 2nd week in July. Staying at Whitefish Ski Resort Sunday to Friday.

We were considering a day trip into Canada(never been) for a visit to a small town the Tuesday or Wednesday we are there.

Also planning a trip to Polebridge.

The last 3 summers we have been to Tetons, Zion and Rocky Mtn NP so looking forward to another NP under the belt!

Hope y'all have a great trip.

Thinking about the quick trip into Canada on Tuesday if we do it.

Other than passports would we need anything to take our rental car on a one day adventure?!
So we locked in July 6-11 at Whitefish Resort

Looking at things to do...and we have never been to Canada, would it be worth the 2-3 hour drive for a few hours in Canada and see a few sights, towns, mountains etc...Looks like we can get to a few small Canadian towns or see a few lakes/trails.

I have never driven across a border before so not sure how that works and if its worth dealing with for a little while in Canada
Thanks for the information!

We do not fly that often and when we do its always a direct flight and typically southwest!

I would prefer not to pay extra for seats and assume that we will be towards the back, but willing to pay if we have to help make the connection.

Hoping we can at least get 2 seats next to each other for my wife and youngest son.
New Orleans to Denver to Glacier(Kalispell) - All United
8:15am
1:04 layover in Denver


New Orleans to Dallas to Glacier(Kalispell) - All American
5:24am
1:07 layover in Dallas
Family of 5: 45/45/19/16/12

My main concern is the layover times. Main two options we are looking at have layovers in Dallas(American) or Denver(United) and are each 1:05

Are either of these doable?

We will probably be towards the back of the arriving plane
Do you think the trails around the ski resort would be walkable in June?

We are not extreme hikers, just like to go out for some light trail walks!
Would mid-end July be a better time to go?
Renting a VRBO in Whitefish Ski Village

We made our 1st trip to Estes Park/Breckenridge last summer and loved it. This looked like a similar type trip so we picked the resort with all of the trails right out the door to go walking and exploring.
We looked at Denver but that's only a 50 minute window!

We like leaving early so there are not a ton of choices.
Family of 5 and we typically go direct so we do not have to worry about switching planes. Since there are no direct flights from MSY to Glacier we are looking at the flights below and want to see thoughts on making the flights

MSY - Kalispell with layover in Dallas Both there and back have similar timing.

5:25am - New Orleans
1h 41m flight
7:06am - Dallas
Layover: 1h 4m in Dallas
8:10am - Dallas
3h 44m flight
10:54am - Kalispell
We have been to the campus one time but never ventured out. My wife and I will have 2 days to go explore while he is occupied. Is there anything that we can go do in the area or towards Shreveport/Monroe areas.

Any good places to take him to go eat - will be a Wednesday - Friday
With the Synology it looks like I buy the NAS unit and then the drives?

Is Amazon the best place to purchase?

So in theory myself, wife and each child could have a folder and access it whenever/wherever they want correct?

Im a windows style with 10,0000 folders for everything to try and stay somewhat organized!

My wife and I currently run a few small businesses from our kitchen table as well as on different jobsites/properties.

We both use laptops and phones to conduct business.

We were using a google drive to share between computers and such but recently reached the storage capacity of my laptop with and was not able to store anymore on the google drive?

We also have 3 kids who are are on gaming systems/streaming as well as all of our viewing is through streaming services.

We would like to be able to share our files and have access to one location with folders from any location, so looking into the best route to help make this work.

I would also like to backup all of our info/data since it is both impotant business documents and personal photos/files wewould hate to lose.
I have been looking at lsu site, but do not see a yea or nea on them.
When/where can it be picked up? I'm in Mandeville.
can you email me?
rlcartie@gmail.com