Above the inversion by Chris Gotschalk.
Swan Rangers enjoyed water, ice, snow, and critters too during their outings this past week!
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In our lead photo, Chris Gotschalk shows why it is worth climbing up in the Swan Range during weather inversions when it is foggy and cold in the valley!
Dee Blank and . . .
. . . Norma Linsky, however, found it not so cloudy in Glacier National Park!
Dee Blank found ice bubbles that look like they are in outer space while . . .
. . . Rod Wallette found some pretty ice that looks a bit better grounded in the earth.
Pat Jaquith found some frost forming near a small critter's den where its breath emerges!
Pat Jaquith also found where elk both past and present have tasted the sweet inner bark of small trees and . . .
. . . Ruth Quist shows us a couple Swans enjoying still-open water!
Hunting season has now closed, but Pam Willison got her buck deer with a camera, as did . . .
. . . Ruth Quist . . .
. . . and Norma Linsky!
Art Rzasa shot the full moon rising above the Swan Range!
Keith Hammer shows fresh snow on a Hemlock tree but . . .
. . . in our parting shot, reminds us that doesn't mean bears are necessarily in their Winter dens yet!
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