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08/04/13: Day 99796: Temp, imported
Entering Glacier National Peace Park in MT. Bright foliage and misty mountains with an invisible glacier
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Up in Glacier
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Another view of Glacier park
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Boarding up for the winter in St. Mary. You are looking at the main stopping place!
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Fun winding, wet roads without guardrails
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5 deer
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4 deer
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Banded mountain with cloud and rainbow. Yes, in the lower right against the trees!
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I liked the banded mountain in the mist behind the orange bushes in the sun. The canadian border zone has some nice scenery
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Canadian Border. I was taken by how vivid the flags were flapping against the sky
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A view of Canadian rolling rairie and jagged skyline. Note the squarish mountain
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A valley view and disappearing mountains in Waterton Peace Park (the north half of Montana's Glacier Park)
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Rainbow. This is not just grass and mountains. The top of the rainbow is in the center of the picture.
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A typical sanitary facility on the Canadian roadside. They are less fancy than those in the U.S, but they are Everywhere!
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I was impressed by the glow of that tiny pair of birch trees in that little valley notch between dark mountains.
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Where the color ends and the dark conifers begin at the feet of majestic banded mountains.
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This Tyrolean apparition is across from the Kilmorey Lodge at which we had a Saskatoon Berry Pie break
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Kilmorey Lodge restaurant had paper grouse decorating their ceiling fans. We'd been seeing the real things by the road since we'd crossed the border
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Even up in the coal mining regions of Canada, they believe in using renewable energy. Note the Nordex \(http://www.nordex-online.com/_e/index.html\) Wind Turbine
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I'm a sucker for dramatic lighting. This is heading down from the Crow's Nest Pass into British Columbia.
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Look at the mountain. Vivid scenery is worth the drive
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OverWaitea Foods? This is Sparwood, BC, a town whose purpose is to support the strip mining of the nearby coal-bearing mountains
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