Glacier Park and flood damage

While it has been rainy this past week in the Valley, Glacier Park got hit hard. Flattop Mountain got over 8 inches of rain. To put that into perspective, the Valley's annual total rainfall is 16 to 17 inches. Needless to say, there is some major flooding in the Park.

Our hiking group plans to drive to Lake MacDonald lodge tomorrow to check it all out. The road is closed past the lodge due to flooding with water over the Sun road.

I'll try to take some photos to share with you (though I haven't even gotten my Flattop Mountain hike photos up on my blog yet!)

Here are a few photos from the Glacier Park web site. I copied a few, but more photos and a few videos can be found at their Nov 7 site and their Nov 8 site.

Some friends may recognize this spot as I have taken them here to see MacDonald Creek during the drive to Logan Pass. This overlook is just off the road. One usually stands on the platform and looks down to the creek. This photos explains all the large logs one sees in the river.



The historic Many Glacier hotel is an area where we had three of our hikes this year. I heard the hotel suffered water damage on the lower floor. The hotel is the building now temporarily in the Swiftcurrent Lake.

Here is a link to a few photos of the inside of the Many Glacier hotel. The area in the photos is on the main floor, which is the second floor on the lake side. I don't think this floor was flooded.






The Going-to-the-Sun road was washed away in some areas. Here the entire road was washed away. This is on the east side of Logan Pass, just east of the tunnel.