Entry - August 17, 1936

10.00 P.M. Went on a fire last night up on Snyder Ridge and we walked about 6 hours for nothing because the fire was out when we got there. I sure am tired today.

Robert

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Comments from Chris

Six hours was probably worth it to find no fire. As we've seen in the past, Snyder Ridge is across the lake from the camp. At the foot of the ridge, just beside the lake runs the Going-to-the-Sun Road. 

The Going-to-the-Sun Road is a key part of visiting the park as it is the only road you can cross the park on. It was completed in 1932, two years before Robert's time there.  At the time, It was significant in that it was one of the first national park projects to accommodate visitors traveling via automobile. 

The road is named for the Going-to-the-Sun Mountain by which the road passes on the eastern side of the park. This mountain is one of the many views on the road. You could look on about any list of the most beautiful drives in America and this road will be on it. You should plan to see it in the summer though as parts of it can get over a 100 feet of snow in the winter.

Going-to-the-Sun Mountain

Going-to-the-Sun Road
By Joeyp3413 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Going-to-the-Sun Road With Receding Snow
By GlacierNPS (Coyote on Going-to-the-Sun Road) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons