You can easily google up oodles of professional, spectacular pictures of Glacier National Park, but in spite of that I'll share a few shots from our visit.
We drove the famous Going to the Sun Road from the west entrance to the summit at Logan Pass, then part way down the east side where we turned around and returned. In this picture you can see the road clinging to the side of the mountains for a long stretch.
The road was completed in 1932. As you can imagine it takes quite a bit of maintenance and that has to be done in the short time period the road is accessible. We had a couple of stops where ongoing repairs reduced the road to one-lane traffic.
Didn't feel quite as exposed on this drive as in our drive from Ouray to Silverton, CO last summer, but then we were in the PT this time vs. the motor home last year. There were more guard rails and walls here, so that made us more comfortable. The max vehicle length on GoingtotheSun is 21 ft., so none of those darn motor homes clogging the traffic up there.
Here's one of the many old style tour buses that take people on Goingtothe Sun.
Some of the scenes those tourists and I were capturing.
We stopped once to watch these two mountain goats (sheep?) come down the mountainside. They calmly trotted across the road, jumped over the retaining wall (not for them), and continued down.
What a difference latitude makes (sing to the tune of What a Difference a Day Makes... ). The elevation at Logan Pass is 6646 ft. In Cedar Crest we're at about 7000 ft.
We stopped once to watch these two mountain goats (sheep?) come down the mountainside. They calmly trotted across the road, jumped over the retaining wall (not for them), and continued down.
A little later this fellow posed for us by the roadside.
At Logan Pass I started the 1.5 mile hike to the Hidden Lake overlook. The trail, shown here, was mostly snow-covered.
I went about a mile then decided that was enough. I think the overlook was just over that ridge. Here's what I would have seen if I had come about a month later after the snow melted.
What a difference latitude makes (sing to the tune of What a Difference a Day Makes... ). The elevation at Logan Pass is 6646 ft. In Cedar Crest we're at about 7000 ft. We had a great day at Glacier. First time either of us have been here (I thought I had as a lad, but after being here, I doubt that memory).
Cheers,
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