A Holiday Pictorial: Favorite photos from recent years

Northern flickers squabble in Glacier National Park.

Arrow-leaved balsam root blooms in the Belly River. The ranger station and Gable Mountain are in the background.

A high country camp.

Crossing the Belly River at sunrise.

Shrouded in smoke, mountain goats look over Lake Ellen Wilson from the Gunsight Pass Trail. (Chris Peterson photo)

A grizzly bear looks around the corner of the Gunsight Pass Trail in this file photo.

Glacier Park’s brightest bird — at least in the summertime, is the male western tanager.

Camp, Great Bear Wilderness.

Sunset, Great Bear Wilderness.

A mountain goat watches from the cliffs above Sue Lake.

A spot of sunshine at Preston Park.

This grizzly bear was outstanding in its field.

Moomrise in Glacier Park.

A great gray owl hunts a flowery meadow.

A collared nanny mountain goat and her kid on a cliff above Sperry Chalet.