Glacier 2009

Glacier National Park, Montana September 8 - 14, 2009
  • Base Camp - Many Glacier Hotel
  • View from room - Grinnell Point
  • Prince of Wales Hotel from Waterton Lake
  • View from Prince of Wales Hotel
  • Kootenai Lake, no mooses to be found...
  • Waterton Lake from Goat Haunt (US side of the border).
  • Goat Haunt: with our transportation back to Canada.
  • Start of the Highline Trail
  • Traversing below the Garden Wall
  • Highline Trail exposure.
  • View back to Logan Pass
  • Highline Trail - Looking into Alberta, CA.
  • Ram wants the trail; ram gets the trail.
  • Hoary Marmot
  • Husband and wife bighorn sheep.
  • Boys Club
  • Highline Trail - Lake McDonald distant.
  • Granite Park Chalet still two miles away...
  • 2003 Burn Border
  • Weathered Snags
  • Our favorite Many Glacier Hotel activity...
  • Jammer Bus
  • 1936 Jammer bus detail.
  • Sunset at Fishercap Lake
  • Moose in the woods.
  • Sunrise lights up Grinnell Point.
  • Piegan Pass in site...
  • Piegan Pass, looking down the Swiftcurrent Valley.
  • Hanging valley as we climb Siyeh Pass trail; Reynolds Mountain distant.
  • Siyeh Pass and Going to the Sun Mountain.
  • Siyeh Pass - 8200 ft up.
  • Siyeh Pass, view to the southeast.
  • Siyeh Pass trail, returning to the hanging valley.
  • September bloom.
  • A shortcut down a dry creekbed...
  • Sunrise at Fishercap Lake
  • Grinnell Point reflected in Fishercap Lake.
  • Moose cow feeding...
  • Happy moose.
  • A beaver slips by...
  • Moose finished dinner and slips back into the woods.
  • First ones to Grinnell Lake and Glacier that morning.
  • Grinnell Glacier icebergs.
  • Salamander Glacier and waterfalls.
  • Yvonne takes a Grinnell Lakeside nap.
  • Glacier-smoothed bedrock.
  • Morning ice on the glacier's melt water.
  • Grinnell Lake at the head of a classic glacial carved valley.
  • Grinnell Lake closeup.
  • Moose calf (in harsh sunlight).
  • Mother moose keeps an eye out...
  • Mountain Goat -- far, far away.
  • White tail derr family.
  • Very large black bear from 20-ft away.