Going to the Clouds Road

Thursday September 1, 2011
Glacier Campground  Site F10
West Glacier, Montana

 

It rained most of the morning but stopped at noon
so we set out to take the Shuttle bus
up to Logan Pass on the Going to the Sun Road. 
Not a great idea given their altitude and the weather.  
What were we thinking?
I guess something we could do “indoors”.

 

Here are some shots of the conditions.

 

 

The road is VERY narrow.
Can you see the tiny cars??

 

 

and is in year 5 of a 10 year major repair.
So there were several stops in the fog.

 

 

We made it up to the Logan Pass Visitor’s Center
where we had originally thought we would hike
but given the weather……a lot of other people
were also chilling given the temperature.

 

It was still beautiful fog and clouds and rain
and hail and all.  Apparently the predicted snow
had fallen on AUGUST 31st, but was off the roads by the time
we got there.  We were told by some friends
that Glacier had 150’ of snow this past winter.
If so, that’s just AMAZING!

 

 

We walked around in the visitors center,
saw photos of the snow up over the roof
in June of this year.  Talked to the rangers
and headed back down to better weather
with the vow to come back on one of
the 85 degree days predicted for this week-end.

 

 

Really beautiful in any weather isn’t it??

 

 

 

We arrived back to Lake McDonald under cloud
but bluing skies.

 

 

What a difference a couple thousand feet make.
J