Where the plow’s at

Camas Bridge to where the Plow is:

Photos along the way:

Lake McDonald
Lake McDonald
GTTSR
Stanton Mountain and Mount Vaught along the Sun Road
GTTSR
at Red Rock Slide
avalanche
Avalanche chute at Red Rock Slide
GTTSR
still lots of snow everywhere
GTTSR
The plow and Haystack Butte and Mt. Gould in the distance
GTTSR
Looking west at Heavens Peak
where the plows are
The rotary plow a little over a mile past Red Rock Slide
Oliver
What a great day!

 

 

Kintla Lake and Brown Pass

This post features a photo of the head of Bowman Lake. The Columbines are seen on the way to Brown Pass as well as the tree hit by a good sized rock. Plenty of shots of the waterfalls coming out of Hole-in-the-wall plus the snow covered hanging valley it comes from. Also, on a recent bike ride to Kintla Lake, which was beautifully calm for a change I took some photos of sticky geraniums, balsam root, paint brush, lupines and the north fork river.
balsam root North Fork of the Flathead lupine and paintbrush great reflection on Kintla Lake rare day of no wind on Kintla Lake sticky geranium looking at hole-in-the-wall closeup of the falls tree that got hit by this big boulder hole-in-the-wall campground all under snow columbines on the way to Brown Pass head of Bowman Lake

The Inside Road from Polebridge to Fish Creek

here is one of the white Glacier Lilies that grow along the inside road.

 

 

 

.. great day for a ride down the inside road. Bring your sandals to get across the south fork of Logging Creek. After that the tree hopping starts, I stopped counting after 50- but nothing bad, no clusters, just a few tight squeezes.  Saw several bull elk, a cinnamon colored black bear and a sand hill crane, all within the worst of the downfall, of course I was going slow enough not to miss anything.

 

 

 

 

 

hay – spruce – red meadow loop

 

the spruce creek cut over from hay creek road to red meadow road is finally snow free and dry enough for a good ride. there is still plenty of snow past the red meadow gate and it might be a while.. latest rumor I heard was that the great divide race might be rerouted around the flathead this year…

 

ride to Bowman lake

lots of dry road, some mud, puddles and snow… Great day for a bike ride up to Bowman Lake…

it was nice and warm in Polebridge but windy and freezing cold up on the lake, no time to linger.

here are some violets I found on the way up :

bowman lake road

Bowman Lake road is still covered with a rather solid layer of snow, ice or water once you get out of the burn into thicker timber. The inside road is open for cars to the end of Big Prairie, that’s also how far I rode it last week. To the south I made it about five miles before running into the same conditions as on the bowman lake road. I guess I’ll have to keep trying..

Out running this little glacier lily was brave enough to stick it’s head out and I hope there will plenty more to follow soon..