Opinion: St. Mary Surprises
St. Mary Lake is normally windy, last week it was like glass. Top: The moon rises over the St. Mary River. (Chris Peterson photo)
A ewe surveys the landscape. (Chris Peterson photo)
The ram suns himself on the cliffs.
Divide Peak and the moon at dusk.
A cold afternoon in Glacier National Park.
So with a long weekend we decided to go to St. Mary in Glacier National Park and see what we could see. I considered getting a backcountry permit to camp in either Many Glacier or Two Medicine, since they’re now in winter status, but it takes the better part of a day to get in and another day to get out and we only had three days, tops.
So St. Mary it was. The Going-to-the-Sun Road is still open to Rising Sun, so when we arrived Friday we set up camp quickly and hiked up the road.
There wasn’t a breath of wind, which is unusual for St. Mary and the lake was like glass. We hiked up the road and got a glimpse of a herd of bighorn sheep. My hope was to get some rams crashing heads, as the rut is full-on, but darkness was approaching so we headed back to camp, hoping the sheep would still be in the same vicinity the next day.
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