Glacier National Park is located in the northwestern Montana, in the northernmost part of the United States of America, adjacent to the Canadian border. I did a post several weeks ago on the Glacier National Park, and it was well liked. I thought I should post a few more pictures and focus on few other aspects of the park. As this park is hard to get to and stunningly pretty, I thought people will appreciate that.
I thought I post a little bit about the Mountain Goats. They are quite abundant throughout the park, but especially common along the Hidden Lake trail from the Logan Pass Visitor Center, along the "Going to the Sun Road". Here is one:
Majestic creatures, aren't they! They dwell in the rock cliffs and frequently seen to climb slope >60 degrees. There are very limited natural predator at this altitude, so they thrive. They have two layers of coat and can withstand temperature as low as -50F and winds upwards of 100 miles an hour!
The colorful rocks are from the Belt Super Group, which are Meso-Proterozoic (about 1400 million years to 1600 million years old) in age. That is very old in North American standard. There was a shallow sea (sort of like Bahama's) there at that time when these sediments were deposited into the Belt Basin. It was the dawn of times :)
Important to note is the scale of this place. Humans are almost insignificant here. Especially when we realize that the entire history of our "civilized" species is only about 40,000 years or so.
Disclaimer: All photographs are my own. Just ask me please if you like to use and share; citing the source is fine. The links are from nps.gov website. I am not associated with or paid by the United States National Park Services. Use your own judgement while re-using their content.
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THe area is blessed with such a beautiful land scape, the goats indeed are a amazing spice to the look and their white color suites the environment. Would you send me the pictures of that area during winter,the environment must be epic!!
nice place
This is a very interesting place, I wanted to go there!
Great photos @azircon - would love to visit the park and see them so up close.
wow, you managed to get pretty close to them! I've always wanted to go there, how fun that you also got to see some wildlife on your trip. The colours on the rocks really is something else, too. Thanks for sharing!
yes, please visit soon. All those glaciers will be gone soon...
Thanks for the comment.