GLACIER NATIONAL PARK PHOTO GALLERY 2012

Glacier National Park, Montana

On Saturday July 28, 2012, on our first trip to Flathead Lake and Northwest Montana, the weather was magnificent and we headed towards Glacier National Park about an hour or so north of Flathead Lake. We drove to the resort town of Whitefish in our little Chevy Tracker where we spent the night. Sunday morning we picked up our rental car, a new Subaru Outback, which we figured was a better choice for all the climbing through the park.

We climbed all the way up to Logan's Pass (6646 ft) on the "Going to the Sun Road" thru Glacier National Park. The park has many spectacular views and it is difficult to pick the single iconic shot, but this one would be my choice half way down the other side to Saint Mary at the East Entrance to the park. That is Saint Mary's Lake with Wild Goose Island in the middle and the Glacier covered peaks in the background. Truly a 'Kodak Moment'. Here is a hi-res 1600x1083 image if you would like a copy for your computer desktop.

I took a lot of photos in Glacier National Park... some came out better than others. It's very difficult to capture the magnificence of this kind of place with snapshots, but what follows are a few of my humble attempts.

Here's a third attempt to capture the wonders of creation in 1's and zeros. These majestic rocks walls are basalt rock, like our beloved Columbia River Gorge in Oregon, carved out by the glaciers millions of years ago.

Here's Libby posing on a rock wall on the drive up to Logan's Pass in the center of Glacier National Park. Those look like shadows on the forest behind her, but notice there were no clouds. The light colored areas are sections of the forest burned in one of the more recent forest fires, started by lightning strikes.

Here I am at a different point right near Logan's Pass. We spotted several mountain goats on the rock ledges above the road in this area. Below is one of them...

My telephoto capabilities are prettty limited but you can tell this is a shaggy mountain goat resting on a ledge a few hundred feet above the road.

More glacier spotted peaks, this time as a backdrop to the Logan's Pass Visitor's Center. The glaciers have been receding at an alarming rate and the current projections have them completely gone by 2030.

This is another particularly photogenic peak in beautiful Glacier National Park

Taken through the windshield just driving down the "Going to the Sun Road".

Another majestic basalt peak. "For purple mountains' majesty...."

Taken out the side window while slowing in the middle of the narrow winding road.

What would glaciers melting in the hot July sun be without waterfalls... they are everywhere in Glacier National Park. This is a particularly photogenic one right alongside the road.

Another waterfall near the summit of Logan's Pass in spectacular Glacier National Park.

This one of Glacier's 33 red "Jammer" tour buses, originally built in the late 30's and restored in the last decade by Ford on newer chassis and transmissions to run on propane.

Another shot of Saint Mary's Lake near the east entrance to Glacier National Park.

And a final shot, through the trees, of a glacial peak in the magnificent Glacier National Park. A good time was had by all!

Well it was a long weekend of touring... we covered close to 300 miles on our trip up to Whitefish and Glacier National Park. Corey was just exhausted and since I was hogging the recliner to write up this blog, he had to make do, with the sofa!

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