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Glacier National Park


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The Lake McDonald Lodge was built in 1913 as a hunting lodge. If you look at the cars parked to the left you can see one of the "Jammers."

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This is sunrise on Lake McDonald on Monday morning.

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Another view of Lake McDonald at sunrise.

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Heavens Peak is 8987 feet high. There is a bend in the road near this point calle The Loop. The night before I arrived some teenagers had a few beers and decided to speed over Going to the Sun. They left the road at The Loop and at least one was killed.

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This will give you some idea about what it was like going over Going to the Sun. The highway took 11 years to build and was completed in 1932. Prior to the construction of the highway visitors to the park stayed at one of the lodges and toured the park on horseback.

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On Monday the view of Bird Woman Falls was not obstructed by clouds. Here you can get a good view of the glacier feeding the falls.

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This view is from an observation area just to the west of Logan Pass. Logan Pass is the point at which Going to the Sun crosses the Continental Divide. The ridge of mountains on the right had side is called the Garden Wall. You can also see some of Going to the Sun road.

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Here is another view looking back at the Garden Wall with more of the road.

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Another shot down the valley just west of Logan Pass.

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The Garden Wall with 9553 foot Mt. Gould.

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Just to the east of the observation area is this small waterfall. The Logan Pass Visitor Center is just the other side of the ridge. I loved reaching Logan Pass because the steepest part of the trip was over.

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This is a close up of the waterfall west of Logan Pass. Going to the Sun road is just in front of the falls.

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As you start east from Logan Pass you get an outstanding view of Mt. Clements (I think) and a waterfall.

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Looking in the opposite direction of the falls and Mt. Clements is this valley.

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This is a view looking down on the falls from the overlook beside the road.

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This view has both the upper and lower portions of the falls east of Logan Pass.

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Here is another view of the mountain and the falls. Mt Clements is 8760 feet high.

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I think these are Mt. Clements and Mt. Overlin viewed from east of Logan Pass.

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The falls are the same ones we saw in other pictures. Mount Oberlin and Mount Clements are in the background.

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Mount Jackson is located at the north end of Jackson Glacier. The peak rises to a hight of 10,052 feet.

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Jackson, Blackfoot, and Pumpbelly Glaciers are located between Mount Jackson and Mount Logan on the Continential Divide.

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On Monday, the view of Jackson Glacier was enough to justify the trip over the mountains.

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I never welcomed flat highway as much as I did as when Going to the Sun flattened out beside Saint Marys Lake.

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This is looking back in the direction of Logan Pass from east to west. I think you can see a fall in the picture just to the left of the mountains.

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