On our way to Glacier National Park, we stopped at Craters of the Moon National Monument. It didn’t so much resemble anything that would make us think of the moon. It was a volcanic lava field. We climbed what would have been the peak of the volcano which gave us a really neat view of the surrounding mountains and countryside.
We also walked through a cave created by underground lava flows. We had lunch here and then continued north on a scenic highway towards Glacier.
The boys had fun in the caves.
After driving through farm land that looked like northern Michigan, we drove through a narrow hundred mile river valley surrounded by mountains. It rained hard ahead of us but only sprinkled on us. We had to keep our eyes on the road because of all the possible hazards such as free range cows, game crossings and rock slides. Shortly after we passed a sign warning us of possible rock slides, we went around a bend and were surprised to see our whole lane blocked by big rocks. We went around it and after another mile we came to where there was a back up of about 30 cars. It was another slide of mostly rocks and hard mud which we were able to get over in our 4-wheel drive Durango. After crossing a couple more mud slides like this, we came to one that was a little bigger. We watched another 4-wheel vehicle almost get stuck in the soft mud, big rock soup. People were guessing the soup was at least four feet deep. 
After a couple of hours, a bulldozer came and dumped it all in the river while a hundred people watched. We then continued on our way.
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