#divide mountain

[thorsenmark]

A Look Across Saint Mary Lake to Ridges and Peaks of the Hudson River Divide (Glacier National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along the Going-to-the-Sun Road with a view looking to the east across the waters of Saint Mary Lake with Curly Bear Mountain and Red Eagle Mountain as a backdrop. This is in Glacier National Park.

[rabbitcruiser]

Glacier National Park, MT (No. 10)

Bird Woman Falls is a 560 feet (170 m) waterfall located immediately west of the continental divide in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. The falls are readily visible from a distance of two miles (3.2 km) along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which bisects the park east to west. The falls are fed by snowfields and a remnant glacier located on the north and west flanks of Mount Oberlin. The falls flow is greatest in late spring and early summer and has been known to almost cease flowing in the autumn.

Source: Wikipedia

[rabbitcruiser]

Glacier National Park, MT (No. 9)

Glacier is part of a large preserved ecosystem collectively known as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem", all of which is a primarily untouched wilderness of a pristine quality. Virtually all the plants and animals which existed at the time European explorers first entered the region are present in the park today.

A total of over 1,132 plant species have been identified parkwide. The predominantly coniferous forest is home to various species of trees such as the Engelmann spruce, Douglas fir, subalpine fir, limber pine and western larch, which is a deciduous conifer, producing cones but losing its needles each fall. Cottonwood and aspen are the more common deciduous trees and are found at lower elevations, usually along lakes and streams. The timberline on the eastern side of the park is almost 800 ft (244 m) lower than on the western side of the Continental Divide, due to exposure to the colder winds and weather of the Great Plains. West of the Continental Divide, the forest receives more moisture and is more protected from the winter, resulting in a more densely populated forest with taller trees. Above the forested valleys and mountain slopes, alpine tundra conditions prevail, with grasses and small plants eking out an existence in a region that enjoys as little as three months without snow cover. Thirty species of plants are found only in the park and surrounding national forests.[86] Beargrass, a tall flowering plant, is commonly found near moisture sources, and is relatively widespread during July and August. Wildflowers such as monkeyflower, glacier lily, fireweed, balsamroot and Indian paintbrush are also common.

Source: Wikipedia

[rabbitcruiser]

Glacier National Park, MT (No. 8)

The rocks in Glacier National Park are the best preserved Proterozoic sedimentary rocks in the world, with some of the world's most fruitful sources for records of early life. Sedimentary rocks of similar age located in other regions have been greatly altered by mountain building and other metamorphic changes; consequently, fossils are less common and more difficult to observe. The rocks in the park preserve such features as millimeter-scale lamination, ripple marks, mud cracks, salt-crystal casts, raindrop impressions, oolites, and other sedimentary bedding characteristics. Six fossilized species of stromatolites, early organisms consisting of primarily blue-green algae, have been documented and dated at about 1 billion years. The discovery of Horodyskia within the Appekunny Formation, a well-preserved rock stratum in the park, pushed back the established date for the origination of eukaryotic life a full billion years.

Source: Wikipedia

[new--tomorrows]

Views from climb of 8,670 foot Divide Mountain: Glacier National Park, Bob Marshall Wilderness & Blackfoot Reservation, Montana. 8 June 2021.

[americasgreatoutdoors]

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings." -John Muir. Photo taken on top of Divide Mountain in Denali National Park by Daniel A. Leifheit