Slightly More Snow on Top of the Mountain
I didn’t really have any plans when I came to Two Medicine Lake, so I ended up driving all the way to the village of Saint Mary. I thought that I should just continue on to the Going to the Sun Road to see how different the landscape would be with the onset of winter. It wasn’t full blown winter yet. There was a warning for winter like storms for the weekend and it looks like I would just barely miss it. My flight out would be the day before the storm hits. It would have been interesting to see how Glacier National Park looks like with snow. I don’t think I have ever taken landscape photos during the winter so that would have been a first for me.
Jackson Glaicer
Although there has been snow recently, it was only happening on the highest peaks. Some of them have more than the others. As I was making my way up the Going to the Sun Road, I noticed some mountains had distinctly more snow. In particular, the Jackson Glacier seemed to have distinctly more snow that the last time I saw it, and that was only a few days ago. I occurred to me that snow here in the mountains can accumulate very quickly. I was told before that this was the time that the weather was transitioning into cooler weather. The changes in the weather can be quite drastic sunny one minute and wintry the next. It is not surprising to know that the park authorities would shut down the Going to the Sun Road when there is bad weather forecast for the day.
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