10th July 2012, 10:31
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| Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West Hello Team-bhp friends, This was our 10-day trip to Glacier National Park & Yellowstone National Park, USA which we took recently. Glacier National Park - is in Montana State, bordering with Canada. In fact a small piece of park is extended into Canada, but majority area of the park is located in USA. Total park is around 1,000,000 acres mostly with Rocky Mountains range. People visit this park during summer to enjoy the scenic drives, mountain hikes, nature and wild life. As the temperature starts rising during summer, all the snow starts melting and forms into streams -> water falls -> lakes -> rivers. There are plenty of water falls and lakes to see and enjoy. Even though there was a desire to visit this place from long time, all the planning happened just within one month. Booked tickets by United airlines: Atlanta-Chicago-Bozeman; and return Bozeman-Denver-Atlanta. Booked a mid-size SUV at Bozeman airport through Hotwire. Why I chose Bozeman? - From Bozeman, its 5 hrs drive north to GNP and around 90 mins south to YSNP. Booked hotel at Rising Sun Motor inn which is right after the East Entrance of park on Going to the sun road. (Going to the sun road is the major scenic road which cuts across the park). Booked couple of boat tours on St Mary Lake and at Many Glacier. Booked Best Western at Gardiner, MT for Yellowstone National park. D-day: Everything was smooth with flight journey. After around 5 hrs of flight, landed at Bozeman around noon and walked straight to Alamo to pickup the car. It was a Toyota Rav4 4WD and within no time we are heading north. Let the pics do that talking.  All these are random pics taken while driving to GNP.           |
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10th July 2012, 10:40
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| Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West By the time we reach GNP, it was around 7pm and weather was little bad. Its raining, cold and windy. We straight away went to Rising sun motel had dinner and went to bed hoping weather will be better tomorrow. Next day it was little better and we started driving west on Going to the Sun road. Some pics from Going to the Sun road:           |
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10th July 2012, 10:47
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| Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West Going to the Sun road pics contd..     Last edited by idlebrain : 10th July 2012 at 10:53. |
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10th July 2012, 10:48
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10th July 2012, 11:01
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| Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West Quote:
Coming to YSNP, being with two kids (6 & 11 years), other than driving on "8", we did took some small hikes to see falls, canyons. All the details will follow in the next posts. | |
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10th July 2012, 11:12
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10th July 2012, 11:12
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| Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West Going to the Sun road contd.. "Logan Pass" is the highest peak on Going to the Sun road @ elevation 6646 ft. The parking lot you see in the below pics are from Logan Pass visitor center, which will be open for public only during summer months (Mid-june to mid-september) and will be closed because of snow during rest of the year including this road. "Continental Divide" also passes through this area - meaning all the water from lakes, rivers etc east of the divide drains into Atlantic, and west of the divide drains into pacific.           |
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10th July 2012, 11:17
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| Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West Quote:
But I thoroughly enjoyed these landscapes while driving through roads. Most of the places it was all ranches with some crops here and there. I felt like watching a western movie.  | |
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10th July 2012, 11:30
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10th July 2012, 11:56
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11th July 2012, 09:52
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| Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West    Lake Mcdonald - at the west end of Going to the sun Road:      Black bear spotting .....   |
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11th July 2012, 10:02
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11th July 2012, 10:43
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11th July 2012, 10:57
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| Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West Some pics from Logan Pass visitor center:               |
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11th July 2012, 11:15
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| Senior - BHPian  | Re: Glaciers & Geysers - Forever West Beautiful pics. I completely agree with VLOCT and idlebrain. Its all about personal interests. You look like a City Boy . |
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