Lake McDonald is the largest lake in Glacier National Park. In winter it partly freezes, and at sunset the peaks above it catch a warm alpenglow while the water stays a deep cold blue.
Alpenglow is the reddish light seen on mountains when the sun is low or just below the horizon, caused by light scattered through a long path of atmosphere.
Photo by David Restivo, published by Glacier National Park under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence.
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- Creator
- David Restivo, U.S. National Park Service (GlacierNPS)
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- CC BY 2.0
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- “Alpenglow on Lake McDonald” by David Restivo, U.S. National Park Service (GlacierNPS) (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
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