A few impressions, a few laughs— mal and jo glacier park continental divide in their own words. Now we want to tell you about 30 spectacular miles of highway. They include the continental divide, countless waterfalls, glaciers, snow bank, wind, sky, clouds, sunshine. These are the 30 miles from lake mcdonald up over and through logan pass on the other side. you can do it in your own automobile or you can do it in those unique red open top buses that handle about 15 wide-eyed customers complete with cameras we started from lake mcdonald lodge yes and by the way you can do it either direction if you come to east you can take trip toward the west and you can do it in your own car but really it’s much more fun to do it in the bus because you can’t open the top of your own car and you’ve got a convertible and with the top rolled back you have the view of mountain I don’t think that I’ve seen any mountains like these any place in the United States ever they are just all around you whichever direction you look there’s a snow cap mountain and start out and you see the ravages of nature the forest fires that they have suffered through one last year destroyed great section of the garden wall and we were told came very close to many glacier lodge they had to soak down the hotel and water log as our guide told us to keep it from burning but eventually though this fire started at the end of August or the beginning of September eventually it was put out by nature the snows came and as you approach logan pass you become aware of the snow it had been plowed out for us we traveled through in some of the early trips through this summer because we are here in June but the snow is still 8 10 12 and drifts of 25 feet beautiful sort of delightful to see also they give you great woolly gray blankets to cover up in so that you can keep warm while you’re traveling in the open top bus and when you get to the top of logan pass you’re happy to wrap up in a blanket you pass by one place it’s quite spectacular because you see the melting season is in effect whenever you’re able to get through logan pass and as the snow melts and as the glaciers melt the walls of stone begin to weep and there is one stretch called the weeping wall and remember all this there’s you cross the continental divide and they point out is it called triple divide mountain triple divide mountain yes where the water runs off you’d better tell them the three different directions I’ll get lost well from this one immense mountain depending on which way a drop of water goes it goes into Hudson Bay running off across Canada or it runs into the Missouri River chain and ends up in the Gulf of Mexico or it runs west and ends up in the Pacific Ocean incredible feeling this continental divide the garden wall that Joe mentioned that’s the wall of mount of sheer vertical precipice that is jagged it looks like a razor back and this is in essence what divides east from west and then there’s st. Mary’s Lake you look up the lake beautiful peaks and out in the middle there’s a very tiny island called goose island and the water is such a marvelous turquoise blue and the sky is such an intense blue and then they’re all the snow-capped mountains and then as you proceed to the east the land begins to flatten out a little bit and you’re a little sorry because the mountains are behind you and now you’re in a blackfoot Indian reservation and there are a number of Indians who still live here and live under the tribal law regulations and most of them are very poor they’ve had a bad time and they take care of cattle and sheep and work in various forms of agriculture the money comes into the tribal fund and they are sort of doled out money on which to live then you get to a little town called bab make a hard angle turn to your left and come back into the mountains and that’s where we’ll pick up our story the next time because that will be at another lodge called many glacier lodge but don’t forget it some time take a look at 30 absolutely breathtaking miles the miles over the canate over the the continental divide in Glacier National Park it’s fantastic

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