Isolated Island
Wild Goose Island sits about halfway along the length of St Mary Lake with majestic scenery all around on what was a beautifully clear summer morning.
The lake is the second largest in Glacier National Park, Montana. Located on the east side of the park, the Going-to-the-Sun Road parallels the lake along its north shore and from near which I took this photo. At an altitude of 1,367m, St Mary Lake's waters are colder and lie almost 455m higher in altitude than the largest lake in the park, which is located on the far (west) side of the Continental Divide.
This is where the great plains end and the Rocky Mountains begin in an abrupt 1,500m altitude change, with Little Chief Mountain (just visible on the left) posing a formidable southern flank above the west end of the lake. The lake is 15.9 km long and 100m deep. The waters of the lake rarely rise above 10°C and are home to various species of trout. During the winter, the lake often is frozen completely over with ice over 1m thick.
The island is some 750m from where I took the image. Fusillade Mountain (2,667m), part of the Lewis Range, is atop the knife-edge ridge in the background some 15 km away.
Scanned from a negative.
Isolated Island
Wild Goose Island sits about halfway along the length of St Mary Lake with majestic scenery all around on what was a beautifully clear summer morning.
The lake is the second largest in Glacier National Park, Montana. Located on the east side of the park, the Going-to-the-Sun Road parallels the lake along its north shore and from near which I took this photo. At an altitude of 1,367m, St Mary Lake's waters are colder and lie almost 455m higher in altitude than the largest lake in the park, which is located on the far (west) side of the Continental Divide.
This is where the great plains end and the Rocky Mountains begin in an abrupt 1,500m altitude change, with Little Chief Mountain (just visible on the left) posing a formidable southern flank above the west end of the lake. The lake is 15.9 km long and 100m deep. The waters of the lake rarely rise above 10°C and are home to various species of trout. During the winter, the lake often is frozen completely over with ice over 1m thick.
The island is some 750m from where I took the image. Fusillade Mountain (2,667m), part of the Lewis Range, is atop the knife-edge ridge in the background some 15 km away.
Scanned from a negative.