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Montana
Featuring Glacier National Park
and other points of interest along the way
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Fort Peck Lake (left); more interesting road "art" to liven your trip (right) |
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Rewarded with a rainbow after the storm before retiring in Shelby |
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Below, arriving Two Medicine, the southeast entrance of Glacier National Park |
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First stop, a short hike to the amazing Running Eagle Falls
(click here for
media clip of Running Eagle Falls) |
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Bear Grass (one of the names for Xerophyllum Tenax) was in bloom throughout the park |
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Lower Two Medicine Lake (also viewed from above on our hike pics below) |
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Heading up the 6.2 round-trip, 2350' elevation gain, fabulous Scenic Point Trail |
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| Fossils & ripple rock |
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A view of Scenic Point (left); a view from near the Point (not as pretty as the other direction!) and flowers where we took a short secluded break (right) |
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Driving through the park from the Saint Mary entrance, on Going-to-the-Sun Road (literally) to West Glacier (waterfalls galore, yet to be explored!) |
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Yes, McDonald Creek is really this color! (left). We ended our day skinny-dipping in the ice-cold glacial Lake McDonald (right) |
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