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Going-to-the-Sun Road
Plowing Photos and Videos of 2006

Granite Creek and Russ' Slide - April 13
 


Glide cracks threatening the road in the Haystack Creek area continue to open and widen. These cracks form when meltwater lubricates bear grass at the base of the snowpack and the entire snowpack - over 6 feet deep on these slopes - slides slowly downhill. Some cracks will fail as avalanches when temperatures warm dramatically or the sun finally comes out again.

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


Piioneering Granite Creek.

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


Pushing further through avalanche debris in Granite Creek.

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


Looking 900 feet down from the top of Russ’ Slide.

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


An operator's view from inside the rotary.

Photo by Herb Ferguson, NPS


Another operator's view, this time from inside the D-7 Dozer. Park staff work very hard to check for slope conditions and exercise great skill is operating equipment.

Photo by Herb Ferguson, NPS


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