For our second day in Glacier National Park, we decided to hike the Highline Trail, recommended to us by Nate and Rachael.
In this post, we will revisit the "Rosie walking" motif, which some may be familiar with from last summer.
Pat was there.
Hiking through a burned forest of ghost trees.
Horsies packing trash out of the chalet, which we'll be hiking by.
Rosie almost done with the less fun part of the hike.
After resting at the Glacier Park Chalet, we took a side trip up to Swiftcurrent Pass.
Looking over the pass to Lake Sherburne.
The situation of the hut. A pretty nice view.
Next to the hut.
Psychedelic lichen on the wall of the hut.
Wax on, grasshopper. Note that the grasshopper is on a really cool rock. The geometric pattern on the rock is from a time in geologic history when there was a mud flat, which dried up, forming a curled, cracked pattern, which was then preserved by whatever geologic event happened next.
For a cool website all about how the various cool rock in GNP formed, see http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/rocks-of-glacier-national-park/.
Pat walking.
Rosie walking through a green area.
Another cool rock. It's a certain substrate rock, with another type of rock smooshed on in a thin layer, which then apparently crumbled partly away.
Here's a wild rock. I don't know where this came from. Maybe the moon? It's full of weird pores like a sponge.
It's even got cool textures and patterns at the mm scale. This wavy pattern makes it look alive, like tree ring patterns.
I like the green lichen on the mountain face high above.
Another rock with a thin layer of stuff smoothed on, then apparently chipped away. It looks like fungus or something, but it is all "rock hard".
Rosie walking through flowers.
Rosie walking along the trail, where it's been cut out of the cliff.
It's actually not as dangerous as it looks.
