Advance Reservation Permit Pickup - A Senior Moment?

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Advance Reservation Permit Pickup - A Senior Moment?

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I'm trying to figure out if I'm having a Senior Moment or...

I thought I had a dim memory that, in the past, one could pick up a Backcountry Permit that was the result of an Advance Reservation up to 48 hours prior to the start of the itinerary. I had always picked it up the day before but I thought I had read somewhere that I could have come in earlier.

I was trying to verify that (48 hours) via the Glacier NP website but I can't find a reference to when one can get the permit associated with an Advance Reservation... the only thing I could find on the web site was regarding walk up permits could be given out 24 hours prior to an itinerary's start.

EDIT: While eating supper I realized that the email I received with the notice that I had been granted an Advance Reservation might have some information. I found that email and, sure enough, there was a printed URL (not an actual link) that the email indicated would provide more information regarding my Advance Reservation.

When I cut & pasted that URL into my browser I could read a PDF file that indicated I could pick up the permit "...no sooner than 24 hours in advance of trip departure..."

So...

Does anyone recall it ever being 48 hours in advance of trip departure?

I suspect I've garbled this memory and the 48 hours was for some other item but I thought I'd see what foks here remembered.

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Re: Advance Reservation Permit Pickup - A Senior Moment?

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I have never seen an ability to pick up backcountry permit earlier than 24 hours before departure. In other works the earliest one has always been able to pick up their permit was first thing in the morning the DAY BEFORE the start of their trip.
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Re: Advance Reservation Permit Pickup - A Senior Moment?

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Ear Mountain wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:42 pm I have never seen an ability to pick up backcountry permit earlier than 24 hours before departure. In other works the earliest one has always been able to pick up their permit was first thing in the morning the DAY BEFORE the start of their trip.
Ear Mountain,

Thanks,,, I must have been confusing this pickup constraint with something else.

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