Sunday, April 30, 2006.  We have spent the night at Butte Montana. Drove around town in the morning but everything was closed including the large mining museum.  This does not open until mid May.  This is a big mining town.  It reminds us of Timmins. .We are now at Glacier National Park.  It also is not open until mid May but we can park in the primitive campground which is the picnic area.  We can only see a small portion of the park because the higher elevations is still snowed in and there is a possibility of an avalanche.

Waterton-Glacier International Peach Park


Lake McDonald (as seen from our beach where we are camped.)

 

A hand's width can determine whether a raindrop becomes part of the Columbia, Mississippi, or Saskatchewan river systems.  Waters from the Glacier International Peace Park flow to the Pacific Ocean by way of the Columbia River, Gulf of Mexico by way of the Missouri River-Mississippi River and the Hudson Bay by way of the Saskatchewan River-Nelson River.  This all happens from the Triple Divide Peak, southeast of Logan Pass.  We cannot see this as it is closed to us but we do see the drainage and swiftness of the waters all over the park.
This is Avalanche Lake. The water you see there is the runoff from the mountain and goes down to the Lakes in the park and the Triple Divide.

All this water is the runoff from the mountains.  In the summer all of this is only a trickle.

 

This park is dense with a lot of trees and you can see the ground is covered with fallen trees from the winter storms.
 

A Pileated Woodpecker.  He did the Woody-woodpecker sound.

This guy came every morning to make sure we did not leave any garbage out.
 
A week ago we were in a desert environment and now all we see is water, what a contrast.

We have noticed they do selective tree harvesting.  They are doing something right here because they do not seem to have a lot of bare areas.

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