Many Glacier Panorama

Location: Glacier National Park in Montana. If you enter from the Kalispell area, this lodge is in the northeastern part of the park. You traverse the park via Going-to-the-Sun Road then turn north. You then head back west on Many Glacier Road. They'll give you a map at the gate. Its cross-the border counterpart is Waterton National Park.

Find the location: Copy the coordinates below. Open Google Earth, paste the coordinates into "Fly To" and click on the magnifying glass.

48° 47' 51.66" N
113° 39' 23.54" W

Equipment:  Hasselblad C501 with 50 mm lens and polarizing filter.  Velvia transparency film, ISO 50.

Digital imaging/manipulation:  Image scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Multi PRO at 4800 dpi.  Emulsion artifact removed. Three photos were connected in Photoshop CS, then reworked in CS2 to diminish the connections.

Notes: This is what you see when you stand on the back deck of Many Glacier Lodge. There are a number of very nice accomodations throughout the park including several historic lodges. Its scenery is spectacular. Waterton-Glacier also has an impressive variety of fauna including grizzly and black bears, mountain goats, and bighorn sheep. Without doubt, this park is one of the crown jewels of the national park sytem. When visiting, don't miss Waterton, a spectacular park in its own right. During our visits, bighorn sheep would walk leisurely through the Waterton townsite. As I recall, this shot was taken in July.