Last Day Of Ski Season Atop Whitefish Big Mountain

(Glacier National Park Mountains In Distance)



 



Life of Riley, My Buddy

Simply Beautiful Pics from Going to the Sun Road

Bear Grass in Glacier NP

 Each spring you see these beautiful plants, commonly called bear grass (also Indian basket grass); they are in the lily family and only sprout these beautiful flowers every five to seven years; park forests covered with them, particularly west side, wettest side

Logan Pass

Last few hundred yards for me to get to Logan Pass, where the Going to the Sun Road crosses over the Continental Divide; visitor center left of pic; altitude is just shy of 6700 feet; this world famous road is only open to motor traffic about three months of every year (basically July, August and September); it is 55 miles long, straight across Glacier NP, running west to east; this road generally does not open to car traffic until maybe late June of each year, but is available to hikers, bikers and skiers beginning about May; MT residents take advantage of this time each year to have Glacier NP all to themselves, without the massive crowds that will be coming later, as soon as the road opens

Beautiful Animals

Big Horn Sheep meandering around on the slopes; they are just off the Going to the Sun Road; another post later on shows them down on the road; the amount of water coming down the west side of the Continental Divide is amazing; the snow and ice are melting, and all the waterfalls, creeks, etc. are gushing with massive amounts of water; Glacier NP is really one of the most awesome national parks in our country, brings enormous amounts of tourist monies into NW MT; glaciers estimated to be gone by 2030, due to warming

Traffic Jam Going up to Logan Pass

Encountered these Big Horn Sheep as we were heading down from Logan Pass, typical sight in park; two of them butted heads as we watched them; another beautiful animal you often see is the mountain goat; one of hundreds of waterfalls that cascade down from mountains is seen in background; sheep eventually got tired of us staring at them and took off up the slope to higher ground