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Glacier National Park braces for monumental melt

Every year, winter sends a message to Glacier National Park: That famous road clinging to the mountainside, the one that more than a million visitors drive every summer for incredible views of glacier-carved peaks? It probably shouldn’t be there.

The message is sent by way of avalanches and snowdrifts that can pile 80 feet deep. And every year, the park works furiously to undo what eight months of alpine winter did to the Going-to-the-Sun Road, all to open it for just two or three months before the snows come again.

This year, the message is louder than ever.

by Matthew Frank

Full Story: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/going-to-the-wallet/Content?oid=1446491

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