Glacier National Park-part 1-July 27, 2012

Rather than try to describe to you what we saw today in print, I am going to take more than one blog to show you pictures. I'll say a little about some of the pictures. This was the most difficult to describe of all the places we have been because it is so huge and magnificent and glorious. It is truly God's handiwork at its finest. We drove 200 miles today to go through the entire park from one end to another. It was worth every minute.

One of the first big sights upon entry into West Glacier.

All of the lakes and rivers are a magnificent shade of turquoise.

A small glacier at the top.

What can I say about this? This is my favorite picture.

It was worth walking down a hill to see this.

Waterfall running under the road.

The Weeping Wall.

Let me stop at this point and tell you that this is part of the damage that was done by those horrible rock slides that happened last week. This is minor. There were 12 slides in a 10 mile stretch. At one point the road was only a single lane with the other lane missing and sliding down the hillside. They had traffic lights attached to pick up trucks so we had to stop and let one lane go through at a time. It was still very wet and muddy. The horror of that day seemed to come alive today when we saw the horrible mess. It is truly a miracle that no one was killed or lost down the mountain on that day.

This is the beginning of where we had to stop at a traffic light and then use the single lane that was not damaged.

I hope you have time to see the next two parts of today's blog.