Big horn sheep and mountain goats

I think we are done with national parks for a while cause I heard Mom say she was tired of all the beautiful scenery. We have some nice peaks we can see from our windows but the humans have been driving around Glacier National Park here in northernmost Montana and saw (guess what?) glaciers, big horn sheep, mountain goats and lots of birds of prey (they sort of scare me). They like the name of the road through the park; it’s called the Going to the Sun road and was completed many, many years ago.

We can’t go any farther north or we’ll be in Canada so we are traveling south soon, I guess.


Heaven's Peak in Glacier National Park (8,897 feet high)


Jackson Glacier - the only glacier in the park visible from the road. The rest require back country hikes in order to view them.


The elusive big horn sheep. This male was on the hillside about 20 yards up from the edge of the Going to the Sun Road


A Mountain goat it its native habitat - a parking lot early in the morning near the crest of the Going to the Sun road. After hours spent scanning the peaks in parks in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, our only sighting turns out to be 5 yards from our Land Cruiser in a parking lot!




 
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