Glacier National Park - Part II

Alamosa Library, Colorado

 

 

 

    Looking up the Going-to-the-Sun Road from the Loop toward Logan Pass, which is behind "rooster-comb" Mt Oberlin (8180'). [All Glacier NP photos taken on 7 July.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Not sure which mountain reaches skyward at the top of a glacier, but the falls are certainly spectacular.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    [Click once to enlarge; press ESC to return here.] A plaque on Heavens Peak (8987'), which sits almost due north of the upper end of Lake McDonald.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    With what looks like a wall (Garden Wall) a bit up the canyon from the road, the falls make this a "Weeping Wall."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Panning downstream....

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Zooming in....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    A look up McDonald Creek before it turns from SE to SW and heads for McDonald Falls and Lake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Zooming in....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    A plaque with an excellent photo of a hanging valley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    At least two falls from a shrinking glacier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Mount Gould? (9553')

 

 

 

 

 

    The south end of a north-bound mountain goat; there were two and they didn't seem to like the attention from the flock of shutter-birds which descended upon them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    The last waterfall before reaching Logan Pass (6646'), where I didn't stop because there was an ambulance in the Visitor Center Parking Lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Starting down the NE side of Logan Pass, my guess is that this is Going-to-the-Sun Mtn (9642').

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Whatever its name, this mesa-like mountain-top gets sun most of the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    If this is Siyeh Bend, then the mountain at the top of this drainage is Mt Siyeh (10,014').

 

 

 

 

    As I descended toward St Mary Lake, clouds became more prevalent. At one outlook I met a couple from California. When I told them I bought my F250 at Folsom Lake Ford, they said they lived a short distance from it.

 

 

 

    Plaque on the building of the Going-to-the-Sun road. The building of the road was a couple of years too early to take advantage of cheap ($1/day) Civilian Conservation Corps [the original CCC] labor.

 

 

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[To be continued in a Part III; as I've told many, I took more photos at Glacier Natl Park in two days than I took in four days at Grand Teton & Yellow Natl Parks.

 

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Links:

• My 24 July post on Glacier National Park - Part I
• National Park Service web pages on Glacier National Park
• Wikipedia article on Glacier National Park

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