Plowing at Rimrock - Glacier National Park
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Each spring the challenge of plowing the Going-to-the-Sun Road starts all over again. Join the Road Crew on a typical day in early June of 2008 as they work to clear the Rim Rock area, just west of Logan Pass.
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My wife and I are born and raised 32 miles from the entrance of GNP=Glacier National Park.
Good to see all the heavy equipment working together to get the road open.
That is insane period.... we USED to get snow in Minnesota but now its pretty much just irritating. You guys a awsome.
Wonder why there are multiple crews working and/or multiple shifts?
Snow seems to be a cash cow.
@@dryherbvoter , the snow itself is not a "Cash Cow". The Park in itself is a "Cash Cow".
J PR, the Park Service would have to bring multiple lights and generators. Where are they going to put these equipment like on the "Rim Rock" area when you have steep avalanche debris on the road itself? It has been deep as 90 FEET DEEP there before. This is the area among multiple places where the wooden guardrails are taken out in the fall so avalanche debris can fall into the valley below. The deepest avalanche debris on a highway of anywhere in Canada/United States that I ever heard of. The deepest avalanche debris over train tracks I heard of was 120 FEET DEEP over the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad tracks in southwestern Colorado in April, 2019.
There’s just some p,aces man shouldn’t build roads. Think of the money that is spent ever year just clearing snow from this stretch of road. Not to mention the cost of maintaining it the rest of the year.
Cory Driver, this "Going to the Sun Road" is only opened after the snowplowing, rock removal from avalanches, road repair from falling rock slides, and put back in place the reusable wooden guardrails then this road is completely opened. This National Park is NOT opened yearlong for vehicular traffic. The Park Service starts closing down the Park in mid to late October every year because it starts snowing on the higher elevations. The avalanche prone areas they take out these wooden guardrails then. Avalanches are going to do their thing year after year where these guardrails are put in the spring and taken out in the fall. That "Rim Rock" area has been deep of snow/rock debris as much as 90 FEET DEEP there before. It has been as late to mid July before the Park is completely opened. This "Going to the Sun Road" is the only road that traverses the entire width of the Park. Why does the Park Service go all it does to get this road completely open year after year? Because it is a "Cash Cow", just like tourists visit Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon National Park.
Just wait for the snow to melt. These guys need to learn organic gardening and make more logical living.