Link to an article in the Hungry Horse News. The article says that falling is the leading cause of death in Glacier but I always thought it was drowning.
https://hungryhorsenews.com/news/2020/j ... ail-in-10/
Jay w wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:16 pm My guess would be he didn’t know the route and tried to go beyond the false summit to the true summit
Yeah that's possible after seeing how the mobs at Logan Pass have been behaving this year.
...It’s hard to imagine being careless enough to fall off the false summit route, but I guess I should never underestimate people.
People are just getting dumber every year. As the expression goes, You just can't fix stupid.
Jay
peteFairbanks142 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:21 pm We were up at Logan Pass and walked out to the Hidden Lake overlook yesterday morning. It was a zoo. Masses of people. A couple of guys climbing up the snow fields and snowboarding down them. A woman crossing one of the snow fields in flip flops, carrying a purse. Litter. Crowds.
Same behavior I saw the day the GTTS road opened. People going below the Hidden Lake observation deck and wandering all over the place. It's gotten worse every year for the last 4-5 years with the increasing crowds. People just going ALL OVER and not a Ranger in sight anywhere that I saw, but there were three at the information table. Go figure.
We got out of there and went up and hiked to Piegan Pass, which was great.
Weren't the glacier lilies beautiful in the meadows after leaving the forest?
So sad to hear that this happened later that very same day up there.