One of the symbols of Glacier National Park is the mountain goat. People who travel up the Going to the Sun Road to Logan Pass are almost sure to see mountain goats from the road, and hikers in the mountain trails often encounter them face-to-face. Recently we rode the shuttle up to the pass and while stopped at a construction site near the pass I shot some pictures of mountain goats through the window.
The Rocky Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) is found only in North America. It is not actually a goat, but an ungulate. They live in the high mountains and are quite adept at climbing steep, rocky slopes. Native people have hunted them for thousands of years.