View from Going-to-the-Sun Highway Glacier Park Montana

Going to the Sun Highway Glacier National Park Montana photo by Jack Barrett (Y) #73 p 10 PHOTOS ON WEB PAGE TEN -#76 GERSHOM BRADFORD #77 + #78 SOPHIE + JACK Baltimore 1957 and at Donovans' home New Year's Eve 1956.

Around July l0, l947 the Barrett family traveled from Ritzville and Spokane Washington via Pend Oreille Lake northern Idaho panhandle and Thompson Falls and Kalispell Montana to Glacier national Park. Bright yellow mustard plants were in bloom in large areas of western Montana. Jack enjoyed a good fish dinner at Hennessy's steak house Kalispell. The l937 Lincoln Zephyr despite its elusive radiator hole managed to ascend the spectacilarly beautiful Going to the Sun Highway and crossed the Continental Divide. Then the Barretts spent several nights at Swift Current Cabins in the Hudson Bay - Arctic drainage in the northeast section of the park.The cabins were operated by a friendly Minneapolis schoolteacher.Artists asked Sophie and Mollie to leave their clothes on the clothesline a little while until they completed skecthes for paintings.One day Mollie and John hiked to beautiful blue-green Iceberg Lake, with a ranger guide. From there the Barretts proceeded to Helena, Butte, Mammoth Hot Springs and Yellowstone, Old Faithful, and Grand Teton and Yellowstone Lake,Falls and Canyon.