Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Glacier "Going to the Sun Highway"






I will let the pictures speak for themselves. Here is a brief description of what you are looking at.
The white flowers are called bear grass and literally cover the burned over areas where lightning has caused forest fires.
The Cedars Trail shows many cedars over 100 feet tall and some are 300 years old. The root Tom is standing beside shows how shallow the roots are and many have fallen into Avalanche Creek. This trail we took was nearly a mile long and we were at about 4000 feet. We are doing well for old folks, I would say.
There is a picture of a ribbon waterfall coming from the hanging canyon so named because it was formed by a small tributary glacier. When the main glacier melted the canyon formed by this glacier was high up above the valley which had been formed by the main glacier.
The step falls are formed by rocks eroding at different levels.
The triple divide pass is where water goes in three directions unlike the Continental Divide which only divides the water into the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Here is also goes to the Hudson River.
A tourist took a nice picture of the two of us, so am sending it along for the mountain view.
We had to hike a bit to get to the waterfall where Tom is standing, but we made it fine.
I'll have to put the rest of the pictures in another blog. I can't seem to load them all on this one.

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