Spent most of today in Glacier National Park, taking nearly 400 photos of rivers, lakes, valleys, waterfalls, snowfields, black bears, mountain goats, and mountains. Oh, and a glacier. Traveled another 172 miles today (1,025 miles total).
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| Going-to-the-sun highway is an impressive feat of engineering -- and not for the faint of heart! |
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| Rocks. In the Rockies. Hence the name. |
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| Looking east from Logan Pass (elev. 6646 ft.), located on the Continental Divide. Streams flow eastward from here, eventually reaching the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| More Logan Pass views. |
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| Logan Pass parking lot. |
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| Rolling hills just east of the Rockies between St. Mary and Browning. |
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| Where the Plains meet the Rockies. Huge groves of aspen trees and open range cattle. |
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| Jackson Glacier |
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| St. Mary Lake, near east end of Glacier NP. |
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| Wheat fields near Cut Bank, MT. Already harvested and the straw cut, only stubble remains. |
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| Grain silos at Cut Bank, MT. |
Very fascinating pictures! I feel like I am there!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child, my young adult brothers would custom cut wheat all summer. They would begin around Memorial Day in Texas and end around Labor Day in Cut Bank, Montana. I remember pondering that fascinating name -- Cut Bank. To me, it seemed to refer to the cut wheat. Glad to see the wheat harvests are still going strong there!
ReplyDeleteTraci, a cut bank is a cliff cut by erosion on the outer bend of a river or stream. Cut Bank is located on a cut bank on Cut Bank Creek (which has many of them), and hence the name.
DeleteTraci, what does it mean to 'custom cut' wheat?
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