32oz's misc data/hikes

“http://www.bigskyfishing.com/National_parks/glacier/hiking-highline-trail.shtm

The Highline Trail is one of the premiere hiking trails in Glacier National Park. The Highline Trail begins at Logan Pass on the Going to the Sun Road and then runs north, following the Continental Divide in the process, to Fifty Mountain Campground, a distance of about 20 miles. From there, the Highline Trail “merges” into the Waterton Valley Trail, which will take a hiker from the campground down to Waterton Lake on the Canadian border.”

““Glacier is an awesome place. Always tough to get the route you want though. Everyone wants in, but there's only so much space. We went in 2004 with a group of 4, and managed to get all the sites we wanted except for Hole in the Wall up by Kintla Pass, but not because it was full, but because they had bear problems in the pass and the trail was closed and the whole 9 yards.

We did a 6-day, 5-night figure 7 hike from Logan pass north along the Highline to Granite Park, Fifty Mountain, and Kootenai Lakes. Then we hung a left at Goat Haunt up to Francis Lake, over Brown Pass and down to Bowman Lake. Check out the pictures.

Wish I could join you again, but I'll actually be in Colorado that week bagging some 14-ers. Year's been off to a slow start, but there's some good things in the works ;)”



“We split up the week with a back country trip from St Mary - Red Eagle Lake CS - Triple Divide Pass (near Triple Peak), Atlantic Creek CS - Grizzly Medicine Lake and out to Cut Bank.

Then did a series of day-hikes consisting of: Avalanche Lake (the warm up), Grinnell Glacier, and Highline (The Loop, including Granite Park Chalet) with a "side trip" to the Grinell Glacier Overlook and a further "side trail" past the overlook that was the scariest decent I have even been on.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something or spelling something wrong.””