{"id":43,"date":"2006-08-06T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-09-25T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T13:26:56","slug":"glacier-national-park-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Glacier National Park &#8211; part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Heaven\" title=\"Heaven\" class=\"g2image_float_left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=320&#038;g2_serialNumber=2&#038;g2_GALLERYSID=d1d26e278c41f22395994d3bb22212e0\" \/><\/a>I had seen signs for Gunsight Pass, but I couldn&#8217;t see anything that looked to me like a gunsight. Coming from the east, however, it was waiting for me. The V notch was very distinctive and easily seen coming from the east &#8211; coming from the west the sign is after the pass and trees must have obscured it. That&#8217;s why I wanted to go through the park both ways. You really can&#8217;t see things through your rearview mirrors very well.<\/p>\n<p>The mountain goat is the symbol of Glacier NBational Park and I was lucky enough to find a ewe and a kid not too far off the road. They were probably wondering what that 2-wheeled machine was and why it was rolling through their territory.<\/p>\n<p>Further west you come up on Lake McDonald and the deep blues of the lake and the gold, silver, and copper colors of McDonald Creek. Then you&#8217;re out of the park and into the town of West Glacier. I took a couple of pictures of the bike at the sign on this side of the park, and headed west.<\/p>\n<p>I still had 300 miles to ride today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had seen signs for Gunsight Pass, but I couldn&#8217;t see anything that looked to me like a gunsight. Coming from the east, however, it was waiting for me. The V notch was very distinctive and easily seen coming from the east &#8211; coming from the west the sign is after the pass and trees &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=43\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glacier National Park &#8211; part 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}