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RE: Travels With Connie #64 Glacier Park
You could include me in the group that has never seen a moose in the wild, seen plenty of stuffed and mounted heads and even a full size one stuffed but I just never have encountered one in the wild.
Nice pictures and beautiful scenery, so how much chained did you notice from 35 years prior?
The change is really hard to even quantify. There was much more 'white' when I was there last. But this year was not a great snow year and spring came early in the Northwest. Going to the Sun Highway was open in early June this year, and most years it is the 4th of July before they even get it open. Last time up there was some restricted vision areas on the highway. Restricted by walls of snow over 8' high :)
The highway surface is much better than I remember. It's amazing just how good it is considering the brutal conditions and the freeze/thaw cycles that it goes through.
Man it sounds like that Sun Highway is only open a few months out of the year then. I would imagine it is sometimes snowing there in late Sept or early Oct. and more than like November is probably holding snow pretty well by then.