Glacier Park roads leader enjoys challenges of plowing Sun Road
Christian Tranel takes a break from clearing snow on Logan Pass Tuesday, July 5. Tranel has worked helping clear the Going-to-the-Sun Road each spring since 2011. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
When Christian Tranel was operating bulldozers in the Army, he never dreamed that he would one day be operating the same equipment clearing snow from the top of one of the most famous mountain passes in the country.
For the past 12 years, Tranel has been a part of the crew that battles the snow, rocks and avalanches each spring to make Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park passable for millions of visitors...
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