Melting

Doinstuff in Glacier National Park,Montana

 

Glaciers worldwide are melting into history and Glacier National Park is no exception.
The glaciers for which this park is named after are turning to slush and will entirely disappear in the next 25 years at the present rate of global warming.
At this rate of global warming we are having today, means there will be none by 2030.
Today there are only 27 named glaciers left.

Visit

 

Through out Glacier National Park, visitors reveal the handiwork of the powerful glaciers that sculpted the parks, valleys and peaks, long ago.

Glacial Lake

 

Glaciered blue lakes glisten in the sun, alpine meadows and wind carved mountains streaked with waterfalls are just some of the breathtaking scenic wonders that await you.

 

 

 

 

 

Valley

 

The chiseled peaks and deep valleys you see today, around every turn, were sculptured eons ago by slow-moving glaciers.

History

 

Mountains sculptured by the master, Glacier National Park is evidence of our glacial past.
There are 6 mountains with elevations of more than 10,000 feet, in Glacier National Park.

Ice Age Sculptures

 

The ice age floods burst through western Montana with a awesome force, some 15,000 years ago, with speeds of up to 60 MPH. Carving out gorges and leaving high mountains.

Scenic Drive

 

Going-To-The-Sun-Road is a wonder in itself, 50 miles of road carved out of solid rock and crosses over Logan Pass at 6646 feet.
Going-To-The-Sun-Road is something to behold but not for the faint of heart.
Initially laid out in 1918 the highway reached Logan Pass in 1928.
Today at Logan Pass a wooden hiking trail and miles of trails for hiking are all around the Logan Pass area.

HIGH Elevation

 

The 50 mile road gains an elevation of 6680 feet at Logan Pass.It has a lot of steep and narrow switch backs. These were carved out of the rock by pick and shovel, horse’s, sleds and dynamite.

Bird Woman Falls

 

Travel Weather

We went to Glacier National Park in the fall.
September after the Labor Day visitors.
It was cool , the first day we went The Logan Pass area was socked in with clouds.
It was not the best day for sight seeing.

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Bird Woman

Water falls Like Bird Woman Falls, is a 419 feet tower of water. The falls by this late in the season, was almost dry.
It would be really beautiful in the spring. It was something to see a falls of that magnitude.