A look back at Glacier Park in photos, 2016

Bighorn sheep traverse the slopes below Triple Divide Pass in a rainstorm.

The Belly River Ranger Station in Glacier National Park.

Bear grass blooms as the Sun Road snakes below in Glacier National Park last week.

A black-capped chickadee flits from branch to branch eating insects.

A giant western red cedar reaches skyward in Glacier National Park.

Water tumbles over Glacier National Park’s Virginia Falls.

A paddleboarder glides on Lake McDonald last week on a calm summer evening.

A hiker pauses on the edge of a meadow in Glacier National Park.

Waves crash on the Lake McDonald shoreline as a cold front brought the region’s first arctic air of the season.

A bull moose pursues a cow in Glacier National Park last week.

Looking over Glacier National Park from the Whitefish Range.

Columbian ground squirrels play in Glacier National Park near Granite Park chalet.

A great blue heron flies over a North Fork swamp.

Glenn’s Lake at dawn in Glacier National Park.

Blanketflower blooms in the St. Mary drainage of Glacier National Park.

A common red poll perches on a bush on a dreary evening last week in Glacier National Park.

A red-tailed chipmunk eyes the world from the dafety of a backcountry sign in Glacier National Park.

A pair of young bull elk spar in Glacier National Park.

Whitetail bucks briefly spar while passing in a North Fork Meadow last week.

A herd of elk run across a prairie in Glacier National Park.

A grizzly bear hunts a cliff band in Glacier National Park.

A hiker looks over a high mountain lake in Glacier National Park.

Deer graze in a pasture in the Belly River Sunday morning.

A mule deer doe and her fawns in the high country of Glacier National Park.

A gray crowned rosy finch feeds one of its fledglings insects.

A grizzly bear peers over a hummock of Krummholz in Glacier National Park. Photo was taken with a 600 mm equivalent lens.

A bighorn ewe and lamb leap across the outlet to Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park.