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Image taken on the beach at Lake McDonald Lodge. This is looking towards the Garden Wall which is just off center to the right.

Beautiful sunset looking into Glacier National Park. This peak is called Gunsight.

Source: Wikipedia
Lake McDonald Lodge is a historic lodge located within Glacier National Park, on the southeast shore of Lake McDonald. The lodge is a three and a half story structure built in a Swiss chalet style based on Kirtland Cutter's design. The foundation and first floor walls are built of stone, with a wood frame superstructure. The lobby is a large, open space that extends to the third story. It has a massive fireplace and a concrete floor scored in a flagstone pattern, with messages in several Indian languages inscribed into it.

The lodge was built in 1913 by John Lewis, a land speculator from Columbia Falls, Montana. He bought the land and had the hotel built during a period when the Great Northern Railway was building other hotels and backcountry chalets, including Many Glacier Hotel, Granite Park Chalet, Sperry Chalet, and Two Medicine Store. This movement was part of a trend by railroads during that time to build destination resorts in areas of exceptional scenic value. Railroads wanted to attract tourists and create resorts that were equal to the scenery, and private operators like John Lewis had to build equally impressive facilities in order to keep up.

In 1930, the Great Northern Railway acquired the hotel through its subsidiary, the Glacier Park Hotel Company. Today, the lodge maintains its historic character. The hotel also includes a number of small cottages located nearby, as well as a motor inn. The main lodge was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

One of the more popular trails in Glacier National Park, this shot was taken in early August 2009. Friends from Wyoming were visiting and this is one of the trails we hiked. I am getting some pictures ready to send from their visit and came across this one that I had not done any thing with yet. It pays to go back and review pictures once in awhile, you never know what might catch your eye down the road. Hope you like this as much as I do. 

For those who are not familiar with Tamarack Larch, this shot shows them starting to turn color. They are not quite at their prime yet, they are behind schedule compared to last year. This is the view as I turn onto the road that takes me to my office in the the morning.

Source Wikipedia:  Tamarack Larch, or Tamarack, is a species of larch native to northern North America and Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also a disjunct population in central Alaska. The name Tamarack is the Algonquian Native American name for the species. The leaves are needle-like, 2-3 cm long, light blue-green, turning bright yellow before they fall in the autumn, leaving the pale pinkish-brown shoots bare until the next spring.

Shot of upper Two Medicine Lake with Sinopah Mountain in the center background. This shot was taken just a couple minutes after the previous post. 

Sunrise at upper Two Medicine looking towards Rising Wolf Mountain. Very overcast but had a couple minutes where the sun peaked through the horizon before the clouds blocked it.