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.
[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.
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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