Tag: Glacier National Park
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Exploring the Sperry Basin and Climbing Mount Edwards
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A chance outing to Sperry Chalet led to two days of exploring the Sperry Basin in Glacier National Park. Along the way, we climbed Mount Edwards, found ptarmigans while admiring Sperry Glacier, climbed Lincoln Peak, and ran into some old acquaintances at the Sperry Chalet. If your schedule has some flexibility while visiting Glacier National…
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Avalanche Lake – Fall 2025
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The popular Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park becomes a quaint getaway early in the year and late in the Fall. We were craving some Glacier trails and drove up on a lovely Fall and walked up a surprisingly snow-free trail and arrived at the lake as the sun began to emerge. With many of…
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Climbing Heavy Runner Mountain
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Heavy Runner Mountain in the Logan Pass area of Glacier National Park juts out like an old locomotive train. Accessing this summit from the Logan Pass area involves wrapping around Reynolds Mountain and riding the ridge to the top. We had a perfect August day to enjoy this wonderful summit with epic views and wonderful…
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Siyeh Pass Mountain Goat Survey 2025
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A little out and back hike up to just below Siyeh Pass to do a Mountain Goat and Bighorn Sheep survey as part of Glacier National Park’s citizen science program was filled with wildflowers, birds, and a variety of megafauna including mountain goats, mule deer, and grizzlies. A rainy drive up and over Going-to-the-Sun Road…
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Climbing Papoose via Lee Ridge
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One of the spiny outcrops along the ridge of Chief Mountain is Papoose and a fun climb via Lee Ridge which was filled with wildflowers on an epic day in the Belly River area of Glacier National Park. With the construction at Many Glacier forcing us to turn around and go for plan B, we…
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Biking Going-to-the-Sun Road – May 2025
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The bluebird skies had us calling up our friend Jess, throwing our bikes on our car, and biking up Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, an annual tradition that never disappoints. Our friend Jess had never biked Going-to-the-Sun Road. Her and I were going to lead a bike-and-bird field trip for Flathead Audubon, so we…
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Medicine Grizzly Lake (July 8th, 2018)
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If you follow Hike 734 you are probably aware that Jake is currently hiking and exploring Olympic National Park in Washington. Although I’d love to join him on this adventure, my full-time job as a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer and some lingering limitations from the long recovery process of a fractured foot is keeping me close…
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Zion National Park Announcement
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That I would start blogging about Zion National Park will come as no surprise to those of you that are subscribed to my mailing list, “Like” me on Facebook, or follow me on Twitter or Instagram. (If you aren’t, you should subscribe on the right, “Like”, and follow.) In May of 2014, Kristen and I…
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Glacier Christmas Bird Count 2014
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It’s that time of the year for Audubon’s 115th annual Christmas Bird Count. As if I needed any excuse to get out in Glacier National Park on a sunny day…. citizen science is always a great excuse. While the snow was really crunchy making it hard to hear and easy to scare birds away, we still…
