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Glacier National Park & Yellowstone Trip 2008
My father and I took a trip this past October to visit two national parks. It was well past the usual tourist season but it ended up being a good thing. The parks were nearly empty of people, there was no traffic anywhere, and the leaves were changing colors. Here are some of the better photos of our roadtrip from Boise, Idaho, up along the Salmon River to Glacier NP, then back down through central Montana and finally Yellowstone NP.
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Very quickly after leaving Boise's airport and heading north we encountered snow. Here the Sawtooth Mountains welcome us. |
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Two days later and we were enjoying this scene just outside Glacier NP. |
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Lake McDonald, GNP |
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The view from Going To the Sun Road, looking back towards the West entrance to the park. |
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Headed back to the park for our second day, the car ahead of us nearly hit this moose crossing the highway. |
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Running Eagle Falls was well worth seeing. The waterfall emerges from the center of the rock wall. |
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Just before leaving the East entrance to the park, we spotted a number of elk. Hearing them bugle was neat. |
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My father spotted a beaver swimming in this pond as we drove by. I never got any good photos of him but it still seemed like a scene worth photographing. |
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The fifth day was spend driving south through central Montana to Yellowstone. This was a fishing lodge located on a tiny island in Salmon Lake that caught my eye. |
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We were surprised to see a large herd of pronghorn not far from the road. |
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Just outside Yellowstone we spotted our second and, sadly, last moose of the trip. |
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Just inside the park I spotted this bald eagle watching over the river below. You'll also notice the dead trees and relatively young pine trees surrounding them - all due to the large fire the park experienced back in 1988. |
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Right in the lower center is a coyote trotting off. |
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The next morning we were up early and spotted this young fox walking along the edge of the road, stopping repeatedly to listen for mice in the surrounding brush. |
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The bald eagle perched in this tree and a few others birds in the area alerted our guide to the possibility of an animal carcass nearby. |
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We climbed a nearby hill and spotted an elk carcass in the riverbed below. We decided to wait... |
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...take a few photos.... |
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...until a wolf came along. |
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We were too far away to get a very good shot but you can just make out the wolf having a snack. |
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