Going-to-the-Sun Road


Sedimentology in the roadcuts along the road through the National Park.
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Mountains along the south end of the park.
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Local Montana geologist, and father of the trip organizer Kathryn Fishbaugh, describes Triple Divide peak (just above and to ther ight of his head.
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Lunch overlooking St. Mary Lake.
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Joe and Stacy Plassman at lunch.
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Alfred McEwen, HiRISE Principal Investigator, at lunch.
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Don, a retired local geology professor who studied the sedimentology of Glacier National Park, at left.
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Kathryn Fishbaugh, field trip leader, at right. St. Mary's lake in background.
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Ripplemarks on the road guard rock.
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Field Trippers.
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Goose Island, in St. Mary Lake.
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At an outcrop.
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Sweet slot canyon that this creek cut into pre-existing joints -- the creek takes a 90-degree turn just in front of the viewing area here.
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Baring Falls, a mile's hike down from Going-to-the-Sun road.
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Looking down into glacially-carved St Mary Valley.
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The park service runs these classic 1930's buses for tourists.
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Colin Dundas checks out the top edge of an andesitic sill.
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Contact metamorphism changed the limestone above into marble.
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Looking up toward Logan Pass.
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A skinny-looking bighorn sheep.
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Looks like Lego-eroded terrain, above the Logan Pass visitor's center.
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Wide-angle of the lego erosion.
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Goats on the way down from Hidden Lake overlook.
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A deer, hanging out right there in the parking lot!