Glacier National Park Chat

A few years back, a trail runner nearly collided with me on the trail a few miles from Goat Haunt. She sort of burst through a bunch over grown bushes and surprised me as I was hiking. I didn't hear her coming. At the time, I thought it would have been a bad situation if there had been a bear there ...

I really like the first two images from your last post, Pete. They are definitely print worthy and probably poster worthy. I rarely see the air in Glacier that clear when I visit nowadays. Actually, the last time I saw a day that clear in Glacier was probably before 2010.

Would you believe there were people TENT CAMPING at the head of the lake. I saw two, maybe three tents on that big gravel beach that is on the left as you view the upper end of the lake. I had my new wide angle lens, but it's sharp so I'll post a pic later. I reported it to a Ranger who notified th...

These guys are pretty fit to do all that in a day!

Looks like you had a great trip. I enjoyed the pictures. Thanks

The Glacier Guides preference over regular backcountry users doesn't make sense even from a social distancing perspective. The Glacier Guide groups consist of people from separate parties and the guides themselves are also separate individuals. So take a bunch of people not related to each other and...

Debby, I'm so sorry for your loss. Please accept my sincere condolences. As others have said this chat page that Dave created and maintained brought many people from all over the country together and created so many friendships and adventures.

In my mind, here are the factors: Increased availability +No advanced reservations - 2x the number of sites available for walk-in +Less hikers due to uncertainty concerns (availability, wanting fixed plan, etc) +Less hikers due to travel concerns (not wanting to get sick, not wanting to get others ...

Doesn't Granite Park Chalet have dormatory style sleeping quarters? How would people social distance while sleeping in a dorm?

This is a bummer, I was hoping they would start processing permits again. Seeing that my application was for August, I thought that perhaps I might still get some backpacking in the park this year.

I applied for an August trip. Again doing the northern traverse. Another chatter is applying for the same trip but the opposite direction. We hope our trips align date wise so we can swap keys. that would be awesome! One of the requests Tina and I put in for was KOO FIF FIF STO in August. We have t...

I applied for an August trip. Again doing the northern traverse. Another chatter is applying for the same trip but the opposite direction. We hope our trips align date wise so we can swap keys.

Wow, you take some great pictures. I really appreciate you sharing them with us.

-Paul

Yep, definitely a very nice sunset and good capture of it.

The article references bear deaths along the railroad tracks near Glacier National Park. I never knew the death rates were that high.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/scie ... eaths.html