Going-to-the-Sun Road
Plowing Photos and Videos of 2005

Snow Monitoring by Avalanche Specialists - April 20

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS, and Mark Dundas, NPS.

View of The Loop & lower road from 7230 ft. near Haystack Butte. It's an abrupt transition between Spring and Winter conditions.

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS, and Mark Dundas, NPS.

Logan Pass and Reynolds Mtn (9125 ft.) from near Haystack Butte.

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS.

GNP avalanche Specialist Mark Dundas checking out large piles of avalanche debris in Big Bend. Groove is from wet slide that cut through older debris.

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS, and Mark Dundas, NPS.

Recent avalanche debris in Beargrass Chute below Haystack Butte.

Photo by Stuart Nuss, NPS.

Shaun Bessinger pioneering through slide debris in Alps 3.

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS, and Mark Dundas, NPS.

GNP Mechanic Joe Bachurski clearing snow in the Alps; Swiftcurrent Peak in the background.

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS, and Mark Dundas, NPS.

Heavens Peak (8987 ft.) from near Haystack Butte.

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS.

GNP Avalanche Specialist Mark Dundas near Haystack Butte.

Photo by Blase Reardon, USGS, and Mark Dundas, NPS.

Debris in Logan Creek from slides in Triple Arches.