Glacier National Park Chat

Link to an item in the Inter Lake:

https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2020/oc ... g-follett/

Link to an item in the Inter Lake (includes some lookouts in Glacier): (Carlene and I will volunteer to staff Apgar Lookout for a couple weeks as long as Pete and other Chatters will keep us supplied with food, including donuts. We would volunteer for Mount Brown but I am not sure that we can make t...

Link to an item in the Hungry Horse News:

https://hungryhorsenews.com/news/2020/aug/26/bob-80/

Is there a reason the author of this article didn't name the trail?????????????? How much effort would it have taken to get this information? God I hate p*** poor writing like this. pete :wink: Pete, Since you have hiked almost all the trails, I am surprised you didn't recognize this trail immediat...

PeteE wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:33 pm

That is a very cool article.
I loved the writer's style using that Biblical parlance.
Good find Lyman!

pete

Pete,
Glad you enjoyed that. I thought it was a creative piece of writing!
Lyman

Nice article in the Flathead Beacon about the re-opened Sperry Chalet with a lot of photos:

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/08/19/a ... surrected/

Link to an item in the Hungry Horse News:

https://hungryhorsenews.com/news/2020/a ... lacier-10/

I love it!! Spread the word!! GNP is the pits, so do not go there! Hopefully the clueless idiots who spoil the park will start staying away.... Yes, just horrible and hopelessly uncivilized. Wicked waste of money. Go to Disneyworld or Branson instead. At least Disney will ensure that the glaciers a...

Link to an item in the Missoulian:

https://missoulian.com/news/local/one-s ... 34b.html#1

An update from the Flathead Beacon:

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/08/10/d ... stigation/

Thanks very much for pointing out that paper which appears to have a lot of interesting information. I was probably under the impression that the permit system started in 1971 or 72 because there was so much talk about it at the time. I only went backcountry camping once in those years (Lake Ellen W...

I am trying to think when the permit system for the backcountry campsites first began. It wasn't in effect in 1970, the year of this newspaper item which was also the first year I worked at Lake McDonald. I think it must have started in 1971 or 1972. (I think that 1971 was also the year that the boa...

An interesting item in the yesterdays column in the Hungry Horse News provides a view of what the situation was just before the permit system: "July 31, 1970 Heavy use in Glacier’s backcountry was reported, with 124 people camped at Elizabeth Lake. The campground is still one of the most popular cam...

I have seen goats do this on Mount Brown years ago where there was a herd of 20 or so goats hanging around the lookout. Two goats started circling each other quite close up until one goat was driven off. They seemed quite intense and paid no attention to me or the other goats. Glad I was not in the ...

Link to an item in the Flathead Beacon.

Certainly a sad event and my condolences to this man's family.

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/07/28/h ... onal-park/