Great shot Doug. Forced me to open Google maps and have a poke around Glacier NP.
Were you standing on the southern end sandy shore when you took the picture?
Amazing landscape - just added Montana to my 'places-to-visit-in-retirement-should-funds-allow' bucket list.
Colin
Thanks. The lake runs NE to SW (like Lake McDonald I posted earlier). Yes, I was at the southern end. There is a drive in campground there. This is how it looked last year when I had glorious, but "boring" blue skies. I am posting this so you can see behind the clouds. I may have also posted this last year when I first started posting here.
Just to the south is Quartz Lake, with backcountry campsites for backpackers. I went there last year and thought it a bit more interesting. There is also Kintla Lake to the north, also with a drive in campground. The trail to Quartz was closed this week due to grizzly bear activity back there. They all (along with McDonald - but there have been fires there) have great stands of tamaracks.
Glacier is a fantastic little park. Unfortunately, like many of our parks, it has become increasingly very popular - to the extent of being loved to death. Also, as with the other parks along the Continental Divide, (Rocky Mtn, Teton, and to some extent, Yellowstone), the east side is usually more spectacular than the west. That's where I go most of the time. However, the tamaracks are a west side tree - so that's where I go this time of year. [its also more buggy in the summer!]
