1 Beartooth Highway
从这条路进了Yellowstone的东北门, Cooke City。
感觉和Rocky 的 Trail Ridge road 相似,在 Beartooth pass 上的风刮得车门都得费很大力气推开,走了一小段雪路,眼睛都睁不开,只能背着风一小步一小步地挪。当即想到<<呼啸山庄>>里的描写。
一路上的景色都很漂亮,从山脚的溪流,无边的森林, 到最高处的雪原,一直让我赞叹不已。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beartooth_Highway
The Beartooth Highway is an All-American Road that has been called "the most beautiful drive in America," by late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt.[1] Due to heavy snowfall at the top, the pass is usually open each year only from Memorial Day in late May through Labor Day in September.
The Beartooth Highway is the section of U.S. Highway 212 between Red Lodge, Montana and Cooke City, Montana. It traces a series of steep zigzags and switchbacks, along the Montana-Wyoming border to the 10,974 foot (3,345 m.) high Beartooth Pass. The approximate elevation rise is from 5,200 to 8,000 feet in 12 miles (1,600 to 2,400 m in 20 km) in the most daring landscapes.
When driving from the east to the west, the highest parts of the Beartooth Highway level off into a wide plateau near the top of the pass, and then descend to where the Beartooth Highway connects to the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway near Cooke City, which forms the northeast gateway to Yellowstone National Park.
River along the Beartooth

Approaching Beartooth Pass

雪原

The peak of Beartooth

2 Glacier
花了两天在 Many Glacier hiking,分别走了 Iceberg trail 和 Grinell glacier trail。在后一条trail上,看到了熊,就在路边的草坡上,应该是它先看到我们的。几次立起来又趴下去,我想它是在犹豫要不要主动出击。我们和它对望了一分钟,抢照了几张相片就赶快离开了。还算是有惊无险。
Iceberg trail

Ground squirrel

Destinatio of Iceberg trail-- Iceberg Lake

Rainbow over Lake Sherburne

Grinell glacier trail (Grinell Lake)

Grizzly



Fog over Lake McDonald

3 Kootenai Falls (Libby, MT)
这是从Montana的旅游局寄来的资料里看到的,就在2号公路边上,很方便。靠近Swing Bridge有一处的水面很是平静,象是块无边的绿玉。而在大概500米外的Kootenai Falls,水面激荡,浪花无数,有时竟可看到其间微型的彩虹。
Swing Bridge

Kootenai Falls

4 Mt. St. Helens
我没想到火山如此难爬,事先的准备很不充足。大概在离火山口还有1000 feet (海拔)的时候,发现水和干粮已经用了4/5,加上体力也已经不支,只能半途而废,很是遗憾。
回望

下山
有滑雪的装备的话,下山会容易快捷很多。

火山口 (from Wiki)
