Big Mountain Ski Area Photographs

This is another picture of Glacier National Park, seen from the summit of the Big Mountain Ski Resort. As these photography conditions don't happen every day (inversions happen for about 2 weeks or so each year in NW Montana), I took lots of pictures of this event.'

To give some perspective, the tallest mountain in this picture is Mt. Jackson, which is just a tad over 10,000 feet in height and is located near the left edge of this picture. The elevation I took this picture at is about 7000 feet. The cloud line this day was at about 5200 feet or so.

What is so neat about these inversions is that the smaller mountains often times just have the very top of their peaks in the sunlight - and sort of form "mountain islands" in a vast sea of clouds.