Toward Logan Pass, Glacier National Park
The Highway 89 project marches on, this time to the top of Going-to-the-Sun Road. Here's a view from the east side, looking to the west in late afternoon. I wanted to shoot this angle again, but the road was shut down completely each night, much to our surprise one pre-dawn launch. So close, so far. Another reason to come back. As if I needed any more reasons.
We are in Choteau, MT, to visit another library, do some hiking, and be in small town America for a few days. The seat of Teton County, MT (not Teton County, WY, but same creative French trapper naming strategy), Choteau has schools, a hospital, and more services than one might expect in a town of 1,500. Like a latte shop (also the nature store serving the birders at Freezeout Lake and a hunting shop) that has made R very happy.
Tonight, we saw a guy's guy in with boots on the barstool, wearing a cowboy hat and drinking white wine. That's what this project is all about: reinventing the west, one cowboy at a time.
Comments (6)
Beautiful photo Ann. Glacier National Park could very well be my favorite national park in the US. It is so beautiful there. Your photo is a great reminder for me to return here as soon as possible.
Posted by Jim Goldstein | July 31, 2008 10:16 PM
Posted on July 31, 2008 22:16
Gorgeous photo - hard to iamgine that gorgeous vista is real. I love the tiny heart shaped patch of snow in the lower left of the shot.
Posted by Judy C | July 31, 2008 10:26 PM
Posted on July 31, 2008 22:26
"Reinventing the west one cowboy at a time". I don't know what that means, but I like it...
Posted by Bill W | August 1, 2008 8:37 AM
Posted on August 1, 2008 08:37
I absolutely love this picture!
Posted by Annie | August 1, 2008 2:40 PM
Posted on August 1, 2008 14:40
You sure that wasn't some movie star in cowboy boots sipping white wine in Choteau? Someone looking for David Letterman?
Interesting that the French were fascinated with "la teton" but the local tribes often called similar structures "the fang," except, of course, they did it in their own language. You would have had to have someone in the car with you to point out a modest hill called "Molly's Nipple," which is a bit north of Valier. It's on the road sign. Molly was a real person, a ranch wife, and she laughed, too.
Prairie Mary
Posted by Mary Scriver | August 3, 2008 2:59 PM
Posted on August 3, 2008 14:59
yeah, but the "Molly's Nipple Road" sign is stolen off of the post more often than not...for obvious reasons.
Posted by Sarah | September 21, 2008 3:01 AM
Posted on September 21, 2008 03:01