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This is a scene outside of Kalispell, MT. along the Flathead. Very popular area for rafting and swimming. There's one gal out there in the orange canoe that was hung up on a sandbar I believe! lol There's also a pretty waterfall out here, but it wasn't so pretty right now with the water very low. Have a nice week ahead everyone...I'm trying to catch up today and need to go pick up my camera D5200 at the Sherriff's office! LOL...can't wait to get it back!!! :)
Not very many times have I gone through this area in February and not seen snow...there's some back on the peaks but this is nuts! Hope it isn't a scorching hot summer! This shore has about 35 miles of cherry orchards and is one busy place in the Summer! Have a lovely evening everyone! :)
A scene taken along the Flathead...I don't visit this river very often due to the lack of spots along the shore. It's quite a large river and I'm alittle afraid of it. I bet there's some good fishing in this river too...as I see guys fishing it every time I visit this area.
The Flathead River, in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Flathead Lake, then after a journey of 158 miles (254 km), empties into the Clark Fork. The river is part of the Columbia River drainage basin, as the Clark Fork is a tributary of the Pend Oreille River, a Columbia River tributary. With a drainage basin extending over 8,795 square miles (22,780 km2) and an average discharge of 11,380 cubic feet per second (322 m3/s), the Flathead is the largest tributary of the Clark Fork and constitutes over half of its flow.
Deep Bay is the name of this area along Flathead. I could have spent hours along Flathead yesterday but didn't have the time to spend. I do know that I love getting the area covered in beautiful snow. Such a massive body of water...it's the largest fresh water lake this side of Mississippi! Have a nice day everyone...sick with bug......yuck! :P Large is nice...
This is a scene of the Flathead taken outside of Kalispell, Montana. The Flathead River, in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Flathead Lake, then after a journey of 158 miles, empties into the Clark Fork. The river is part of the Columbia River drainage basin, as the Clark Fork is a tributary of the Pend Oreille River, a Columbia River tributary. With a drainage basin extending over 8,795 square miles (22,780 km2) and an average discharge of 11,380 cubic feet per second (322 m3/s), the Flathead is the largest tributary of the Clark Fork and constitutes over half of its flow.
Flathead Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi in the lower 48 states, with over 200 square miles of water and 185 miles of shoreline.
A little change of pace from Montanta few weeks ago.
If I set my mind to it I could be editing photos from that trip for another 8 months.
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On display at the Charlotte (Food Lion) Auto Fair in April 2011.
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This beautiful flathead powered Ford Roadster was seen at the A&W Drive-in Cruise night in Visalia, California.
Model A Ford Roadster Hot Rod, powered by a Ford Flathead V8. At the Silver Springs Chapter AACA Car Show, Sandwich, Illinois, 2022.
Note this photo was published in a Jan 14, 2015 blog titled "Ocean City, Maryland Vacation Rentals."
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In 1996 and 1997, I spent two full summers in the tiny little town of Polson, on the southern shore of Flathead Lake (the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River), and grew quite attached to the town and its surrounding mountains, rivers, and lake -- photos of which you can see here and here. You might also be interested in some of my observations about life in Polson and Montana, which I wrote about in blogs titled The Polson Parade, and Leaving Montana. But then life changed, other things intervened, and I drifted away from Montana altogether.
In the summer of 2010, I had a chance to re-visit Polson, and spend three short days driving around to re-acquaint myself with the area. It had been over a dozen years since I was last there (not counting a brief drive-through with my younger son in 2006), so I was expecting some changes ... but in general, the town of about 5,000 people was pretty much the same. My favorite restaurant had closed down, a Mailboxes Etc outlet had been replaced by a video-rental outlet, and the local McDonald's outlet was no longer posting all of the bounced checks from desperate customers on its wall. It looked like some of the local ranchers and farmers had sold off some of their acreage, for there were a few new "vacation communities" filling up what had been open meadows and pasture just outside of town.
But the lake had not changed at all, and the Mission Mountains along the eastern shore of the lake were as pretty as ever. Just for the heck of it, I got up at 5 AM one morning, and photographed the pre-dawn stillness on the lake, and then the changing colors of clouds above the lake as the sun slowly rose up to peek over the top of the mountains. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to drive down to the Kerr Dam, and I didn't drive all the way around the north end of the lake: I only made it up to Big Fork on the eastern side, and LakeSide on the western side of the lake. I was going to take the half-day white-water rafting trip down the Flathead River, south of the dam, but there wasn't time for that, either ... Nor was there any time for fishing, or even to rent a jet-ski and zoom around on the broad expanse of water in Polson Bay, at the south end of the lake.
I took a bunch of photos throughout the visit, and you can view them here) on Flickr. And after my return from that 2010 trip, I happened to chat with a business colleague about Polson and heard some great things from him about a “dude ranch” located just outside Big Fork, right on the shore of the lake. It was the Flathead Lake Lodge, and after a few more years of distractions and delays, I managed to get most (but not all) of my family together for a weeklong vacation at the lodge. The weather was great, the food was delicious, the horses were cooperative, the lake was beautiful … and that’s pretty much what you’ll see in the photos that I’ve put into this album.
Enjoy … and, if you get the chance, gather your own family together and take them out to the Flathead Lake Lodge for a week. You won’t regret it!
This gorgeous 1949 Ford belongs to Chris Whittington of Shoebox Central. It is a gorgeous original. The only modification is lowering. It has been lowered 2" front and 3" in rear. For me it looks like it was made that way. I love the look.
1942 Ford Pickup with a very radical 59A Flathead V8. Navarro heads and a blower.
At the Francis Park Car Show, Kewanee, Illinois, 2022.
Here's a pretty calm image of the Flathead River...it is quite a treacherous river where alot of white water rafting goes on...I give this river my utmost respect...many drownings have occurred in it...nicest in light box..
Have a great day! We're getting terribly high winds and it looks like weather is moving in...oh boy! :)
Old school all the way! The flathead in this beautiful roadster dynos a bit over 300 hp. I cannot overstate how flawless this car is. At the Walnut, Illinois Car Show 2022.
Driving south from a Job in Canada I drove into Glacier as far as I could. Driving south I passed a frozen Flathead Lake.
We went around Flathead Lake to take Sam's sister and husband over to his other sisters outside of Glacier Park. This specific area is called Deep Bay, on the north end of the lake. I was most impressed with the beauty....and then the wake of that boat out there!!! LOLOL!!! Wow...:) Have a nice evening everyone!!! :) Here's a little clip off the internet on Flathead Lake.
Flathead Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake by surface area that is west of the Mississippi River in the contiguous United States, if one takes Red Lake and Lake of the Woods to be north of the Mississippi River, rather than west of the river.
With a surface area of between 191.5 sq mi and 197 sq mi, Flathead Lake is slightly larger in surface area than Lake Tahoe, but it is much smaller in volume.
The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula of the era of the last interglacial. Flathead Lake is 27.3 mi (43.9 km) long and up to 15.5 mi (24.9 km) wide. Flathead Lake has a maximum depth of 370.7 ft (113.0 m), and an average of 164.7 ft (50.2 m). This makes Flathead Lake deeper than the average depths of the Yellow Sea or the Persian Gulf. Polson Bay, at the lake's outlet, was raised 10 ft (3.0 m) by Kerr Dam. It is one of the cleanest lakes in the populated world for its size and type.
Well we're going over where the Clark Fork meets the Flathead River today!! Have a wonderful Sunday everyone! :)
The Flathead River originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Flathead Lake, and then after a journey of 158 miles, empties into the Clark Fork River over my way somewhere pretty close Missoula.
Montana Rail Link’s eastbound Gas Local curves along the Flathead River just east of Perma, Montana, on September 27, 2007.
- Day Four -
We started our day early and headed east towards Glacier National Park. Instead of taking the main road to the entrance, I suggested driving the longer way around to explore, why not? We are glad we took the path less traveled because we saw some awesome sights all around the Apgar Mountains!
We found and kept some really neat rocks from here. It was a nice little campground area.
Looks like a custom-fabricated steering link, beginning with a rod bent into a ‘Z’ shape and then augmented with stiffening braces at each of the two bends.
The engine is a Flathead V-8 with aftermarket heads, performance intake manifold and tube exhaust header.