Friday, July 13, 2012

Going-To-The-Sun-Road

We took the Going-To-The-Sun-Road at Glacier Park's West entrance.  This is a 50 mile drive from West to East.  You will see what an incredible area this is and the pictures do not do this beautiful scenery any justice.  It is just a beautiful drive through the rivers, lakes, mountains and forest...

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I will post different areas.  This is The Lake McDonald, which is the largest and longest lake...

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This sign depicts each of the mountains in the picture above...

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The water is really cold...it is snow water.

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Manuel taking pics....we both had a camera so we had so many pictures.

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The last fire in this area destroyed a lot of the forest....

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Many trees are burned but many are beginning to come back...

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There are so many falls here from the snow melting.  There is still quite a bit of snow on some mountains.

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I went down this path for some pictures....

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This is what I saw....people are just enjoyed the area by the river, having lunch.

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A shot from the bridge above...

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Another pic, looking the other way off the bridge. 

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More falls....

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Another stop we made, of course we made many stops along the way.

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Back on the road...

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It does not matter which way you look, there is a beautiful site in any direction you look

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On way to tour the area.....neat looking.

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A lot of debris comes down from the mountains with the avalanches....

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The roads are narrow and if you do not watch where you are going, you will end up over the cliff!

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We are about half way to St. Mary.

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Half way is Heavens Peak.  Just awesome up here.

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More to come....

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