Notes To My Mother

Glacier National Park is a great place to visit and a superb place to photograph.  If you have not been there it is good to know there are basically two sides of the park, Westside and Eastside. On the west side you will find Avalanche Gorge, pictured above, and Lake Mc Donald.  Connecting the west and east sides is the Going to the Sun Highway.  It is only open once the snow is cleared and this year, 2023, there is no telling when that will be.  In a normal winter it is usually opened by the last week in June.   At the top of the pass there is a visitor center and a large parking lot.  There are also trails that leave this area going in a variety of directions.  The highline trail is a great one and I got this image early in the morning looking back toward the south as the sun was rising.  Bear Grass is shown in the foreground, a lucky find as it does not stay around long. If the Going to the Sun road is closed you can still get the east sid...