Glacier National Park plow crews grapple with deepest snow in more than a decade
Glacier National Park road crews clear snow along Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier National Park road crews clear snow along Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier National Park road crews clear snow along Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Jim Foster, Chief of Facilities Management at Glacier National Park, walks along the Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass during a tour of snow removal operations on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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A Glacier National Park shuttle bus approaches Logan Pass along Going-to-the-Sun Road during a media tour of the snow removal process on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier National Park road crews clear snow along Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier National Park road crews clear snow along Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Snow along the Going-to-the-Sun Road on the way to Logan Pass in Glacier National Park on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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A member of the Glacier National Park road crew travels across the snow in an excavator to work on the Big Drift near Logan Pass on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier National Park road crews clear snow along Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass on Thursday, May 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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It’s feeling like spring in the valley, but at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park road crews are still in the thick of winter snowpack — the deepest seen in more than a decade, according to officials.
“There's still a lot of work to do up here,” Glacier National Park Roads Supervisor Brian Paul said as he looked over a buried Logan Pass Visitor Center and plows working their way through deep snowpack just beyond the parking lot exit on the Going-to-the-Sun Road. It’s the deepest snow they’ve measured at the pass in the early spring since 2011, he said.
Currently, west side plows are working on the Big Drift just past Logan Pass — a section of the road that gets up to 80 feet of snow accumulation in the wintertime. Paul said east side plow crews are just below the east side tunnel, and will soon join the west side crews on breaking down the Big Drift in about a week’s time.
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