Glacier National Park Chat

Hah yah, poor attempt at a 1 man inside joke. And to be pedantic, I actually started and finished at TNE.

And yes Jay, dense is the goal- in all respects!

I promise there will be actual reporting of hiking very soon.

Updates for next year: Flathead Beacon Heading in the right direction by dropping the east entrance and Two Medicine. Also by pushing the entry point up GttSR, people can enter Apgar and catch shuttles - this is a breakthrough improvement. Not blocking the east entrance seems to admit the issue isn’...

Day 6 9-16-2023 - Two Medicine North Shore Segment; Length (14.7) Elevation; Up (3499) | Down (3773) Ok last day. As always, in a hurry to catch a plane - plenty of time of course to Missoula for the 8 PM flight, but at risk was precious shower and first hamburger+beer time. I asked the hikers the p...

Day 5 9-15-2023 - Undesignated! Fires; NO Segment; Length (11.8) Elevation; Up (1877) | Down (2201) Bear locker: no Welcome to the adventure day with undesignated camping. I was more thinking / focused on that location, assuming the day would be like the previous meandering along the creek with some...

Day 4 9-14-2023 - BEA- Beaver Woman Fires; YES Segment; Length 11 (10.9) Elevation; Up 2000 (2989) | 0 (965) Bear locker: no Ok, finally 'in the Nyack'! Well, technically 'in the Coal' but that doesn't as cool. No dinosaurs to be found, at least the Jurassic variety. I was awoken to wolf howls. I sl...

Day 3 9-13-2023 - COA - Coal Creek Fires; YES Segment; Length 18.5 (19.7) Elevation; Up 1900 (3035) | 3527 (4741) Bear locker: no Ah finally the big day. Honestly I wasn't too worried about the distance, just the energy and Fielding Trail being too bushy. I also knew the water crossings would slow m...

Day 2 9-12-2023 - ISA- Lake Isabel Fires; YES Segment; Length 8.3 (9.1) Elevation; Up 1879 (2451) | 2932 (3307) Bear locker: no With the previous day's drama behind me, time for some nice hiking. I was looking forward to Isabel as well, as if it was worth a spur trail, it probably was really nice (t...

Day 1 9-11-2023 - COB- Cobalt Lake Fires; NO Segment; Length 5.7 (6.3) Elevation; Up 1371 (1847) | 0 (300) Bear locker: no Ok finally some hiking! So I started the day wanting to try out the Sharing Shack for some bear spray on the way into the park, as I always buy but never use (a good problem, bu...

Day 0 As I mentioned, I was running short on goodwill and vacation, so I attempted to squeeze this trip in as few days as possible. Additionally, in the weeks leading up to the trip, the trail closed between Pitamakan Pass and Two Medicine (well really Dry Fork intersection). So that meant I had to ...

Day -n Finally getting around to the trip report. One of the last areas that I hadn't been to was the Nyack/Coal Creek area, so I wanted to give it a try to see what all the hubbub is about. It's framed out by GNP to be some land before time. Will there be dinosaurs? Cavemen? 5 star resort? I also h...

I’m not seeing the ‘like’ button in the non-park related topics forum.

I think they will stay up: Flathead Beacon

Interesting read and makes one wonder if the historic IT problems and current systems that were all handed over to Rec.gov could be better and more thoughtfully supported by the conservancy.

Hey Kyle, what’s with the bots? Randomly resurrecting old threads with seemingly chatCPT generated content. The mystery to me is ‘what is the end game’ with no link to sell you something or phish your information.

Interested to hear perspective on causes and solutions/tools and their effectiveness in general. For instance, Selkie, you seem to be eluding to the bear conditions being more of a cause than the dog (not trying to put words in your mouth). I also read into previous comments that having pets seems t...

Hi Kyle- spot on in translation. For direction, I mean which way one went. Probably more pertinent for backcountry, but there would be a couple day hikes like Dawson-Pitamakan, Piegan Pass, Siyeh Pass, etc. Easiest reference I have found is from-to (as compared to clock or cardinal direction). There...