99 days: Hikers disrupt serene scene at Apgar Lookout
As one of my hobbies, I run, monitor and archive webcams that show weather, from snow on the ground to clouds in the sky. One of the cameras I archive is from Apgar Lookout in the Glacier National Park in Montana. I put together a 99-day time-lapse (one image per day), so I could see the snow depth rise and fall:
That's one heck of a view! This is what the webcam looked like at 3:13 p.m. on March 19:
During the winter, it's generally a slice of nature devoid of human contact. Now that spring has sprung, however, people are hiking to the lookout again. It's the first time I've seen people on the camera since I started archiving it last December. By 3:19 p.m., the spell was broken:
"Dude, check it out, I'm on the webcam." Then, more of his friends show up:
The Apgar Lookout camera showcases all kinds of different weather. Here's what it looked like on Jan. 2, 2016 -- showing rare "undercast," as the summit was above the clouds in the valley:
