The Howe Fire was raging in the west end of Glacier while we were there. I was grateful that it was on the west side, because there are more major entrances to Glacier in the east, so we were able to see more of the Park. I was also SO glad that Mom and Dad got the clear Rockies experience the first couple of days in Banff, so we could have more grace about the limited access and visibility in Glacier. We also decided to be grateful for the insight into the experience of wildfires to make us more engaged and empathetic about that increasing danger.
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- Saint Mary Lake from Sun Point along Going-to-the-Sun Road
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- The rocks knocked my socks off! Look at those colors!
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- From Wikipedia: Red Jammers, with roll-back canvas convertible tops, were manufactured 1936-39. Glacier still operates 33 of the original buses on Going-to-the-Sun Rd.
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- If you look close, you can see Jackson Glacier tucked in the notch between those two mountains From Going-to-the-Sun Road
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- Siyeh Creek at Siyeh Bend along Going-to-the-Sun Road
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- From Siyeh Bend along Going-to-the-Sun Road
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- If you look close, you can see a tiny, magnificent Bird Woman Falls in the lower right corner of the grassy rectangle(-ish) in the front of this photo. From Going-to-the-Sun Road
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- A little dab’ll do ya! The third in the series of family dabs in National Parks. My turn, in Glacier.
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- The view from Logan Pass, on the Continental Divide This was the furthest west we could go on Going-to-the-Sun Road because of the fire in west Glacier.
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- Montana is all about the huckleberries. I had huckleberry pie, huckleberry ice cream, huckleberry tea, two kinds of huckleberry soda, huckleberry jam. They even have huckleberry gummy bears!
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- Can you see the sun up there trying to push its rays through the smoke?
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- Swiftcurrent Lake at Many Glacier
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- Swiftcurrent Falls at Many Glacier
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- The colorful rocks in Swiftcurrent Lake at Many Glacier
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- View from Many Glacier
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- At the Many Glacier Ranger Station. Check the trail conditions out!
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- Driving to Minnie for the evening, we stopped along the side of the road north of the town of Browning to take a photo toward Glacier of where the sunset light ended and the smoke began.
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- Goat Lick Overlook. I thought the name Goat Lick was poetic, but it’s actually literal!
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- The Story of Running Eagle, in the Blackfeet language
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- The Story of Running Eagle, in English
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- Running Eagle Falls – A Park Ranger said that the cave behind the falls is a quarter of a mile deep. He also said there is no large hole in the cave, that the water collects from thousands of small fissures. Amazing!! I have never seen anything like it.
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- Two Medicine Lake
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- Two Medicine Camp Store – originally built in 1914, plus modern skylight
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- The west side of Lake McDonald, from Apgar. This is right inside the west entrance to Glacier, and as far as anyone was allowed to go during the fire.
