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Going-to-the-Sun Road - May 22, 2000

Final clearing of the last obstacle on the Going-to-the-Sun Road...the Big Drift. The drift is a large mass of windblown snow that accumulates over the winter on the east side of Logan Pass. This year it was surveyed at 65 feet deep.

 

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Plowing through the drift to the roadbed.

 

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Rotary Plow at the summit

 

Photographs by Roads Supervisor Bob Boyack

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