A Land for Vision Quests ~ Glacier National Park

Steam from the moisture in the air reacting to the early morning heat drapes a beautiful cloak of soft mist across the Rocky Mountains and Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. I lensed this one early summer morning before sunrise while flying in the area filming the wilderness around Glacier National Park, Flathead National Park and the Great Bear Wilderness.

That is Lake McDonald on the bottom left of the image and from left to right along the mountain skyline are Stanton Mountain (7750 ft / 2362 m), Mount Brown (8565 ft / 2611 m), Edwards Mountain (9072 ft / 2765 m), Gunsight Mountain (9258 ft / 2822 m) with Sperry Glacier and finally on the far right lies Mount Jackson (10052 ft / 3064 m).

From this Research Source:
Recent archaeological surveys have found evidence of human use dating back over 10,000 years. These people were probably the ancestors of tribes that live in the area today. By the time the first European explorers came to this region, several different tribes inhabited the  area. 

The Blackfeet Indians controlled the vast prairies east of the mountains. The Salish and Kootenai Indians lived and hunted in the western valleys, the ones you see in this image. The Blactfoot called those mountains on the horizon the "Backbone of the World" and the "Shinning Mountains". 

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This image is from my ongoing project in which I am trying to raise awareness of the 47% of the USA and 90% of Canada that remain unpopulated wilderness.

Where Eagles Fly - The American Wilderness Expedition is my personal mission to introduce people to these amazing locations that surround us.

Yehaw!!