So I finally picked up a copy of Fishing Glacier National Park (Russ Schneider)....he says that there's lots of easy fishing in Snyder Lake, but they're small. So Dave, this confirms your "horrible" (aka NOT horrible) assessment, whereas "worst ever" would mean larger fish that hit every cast?DaveC wrote:Snyder is a great quick overnighter. The fishing is horrible.
Yup, a trip starting from Cut Bank is my second choice on the permit application that I submitted for this year....and I'm still waiting for word on that along with everyone else! If I do get that trip, we'll probably just camp at the Cut Bank frontcountry campground on the day that we arrive.nunatak wrote:Don't forget the Cutbank country. Atlantic Creek campground isn't the most immediately scenic, but it's nice and a great base for Medicine Grizzly Lake (awesome fishing) and Triple Divide Pass.
Totally, totally agreed. Nothing like a few giant RVs nearby to ruin a camping experience. One of the reasons I like the North Fork country so much ... and I definitely like the Cut Bank auto campground, as well.Fairbanks142 wrote:I should also say that the reason I'm thinking along these lines is that last year we camped at St. Mary on the day that we arrived in the park, since it's the only campground on the east side of the park that takes reservations, and we were arriving in the late afternoon.
My expectations for St. Mary were low based on everything that I had read...but even so, it ended up still being worse than I expected. We had giant pickups / campers nearly on top of us in the neighboring sites. Not good.
I ended up regretting that we didn't get into the backcountry on that first night, since we would have had plenty of daylight to do it. And I don't want the same experience this year. No KOAs, no St. Mary type of car camping....I'm hoping that one of the frontcountry campgrounds like Cut Bank or Quartz Creek will be a better car camping experience, if we go that route.
Fairbanks142 wrote:So I finally picked up a copy of Fishing Glacier National Park (Russ Schneider)....he says that there's lots of easy fishing in Snyder Lake, but they're small. So Dave, this confirms your "horrible" (aka NOT horrible) assessment, whereas "worst ever" would mean larger fish that hit every cast?DaveC wrote:Snyder is a great quick overnighter. The fishing is horrible.
So I'm still up in the air on this one. We got our itinerary -- Gunsight Lake and Lake Ellen Wilson. A 3-day, 2-night trip. I'd really like to do Snyder Lakes on the night before our Gunsight trip starts, to get one more night in the backcountry. We could hike back down to the car at the Sperry trailhead the next morning, drive up and over to the Gunsight trailhead (Jackson Glacier overlook), leaving all afternoon to hike up to Gunsight Lake. Very doable in one day based on everything that I've read. Less driving, more backcountry time.Robin Hood wrote:Snyder has more up than quartz, but is a short hike in. Ive used this as a one night stay before starting longer backcountry trips, and the hike up has affected the following day of hiking for some of the people ive taken on these trips.