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We visited all of then and selected the smilest where the tent
was pitched on a nice level snot near the lake. ”he days drive
wee on roads that were just fore with some rough snots and very
to close all
mien anoth
dusty.
r ear passed it she necessary
windows and sometimes st until the dust settled. ”here was no
snow, not even on .e roads in the mark is far as we had gone.
”rip
I70 l‘files.
sundav, .T 4 to ”moaxl June XI.
We were very much pleased with our cam. and consider it one
of the prettiest spots on Which we ever camped. Photo 53 was tak-
en from camp at sunrise looking west. The water is that of Lake
LcDonald w. 1e the snow covered mountains is the Whitefish Range
which lay to the west or the :r- k boundary. Photo 64 was taken
’rom camp loo lng southwest. lt is of Lake 1‘ch maid and the
'tefish nge. In heck or east of can) e h lls sloped steeply
up toward .ie main ridge of the ‘iackys.
Lake Jicnonnld, the largest one in th park, is more then a
mile wide and ten miles lone. hiring the lee age a glacier occu»
pied th_s valley, grind_ g and scouring out its sides and hetton,
and carrylng with it all loose material. The down valley- end of
it
de-
was at the present outlet of the lake where
this glacier
posited its dehris. After the {glacier disappeared this debris
acted as a natural dam across the valley and formed the lake.

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