Tag: Glacier National Park

  • Quartz Lake Looning

    Quartz Lake Looning

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    Jake Bramante

    The Quartz Lake Loop has a love/hate relationship with me. The hike up and over Cerulean Ridge in the morning is long, gradual and not a killer on fresh legs. After you drop down into the lovely chain of lakes, you have the hike over Quartz Ridge, also named “Cardiac Ridge” as the trail takes…

  • Feature Friday – Blake Passmore

    Feature Friday – Blake Passmore

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    Jake Bramante

    I’d like to formally introduce you to Blake Passmore. Blake is super fun, a big personality and an overall great guy. He is indefatigable and is out there climbing peaks in Glacier National Park and diligently documenting them so that others might enjoy them. What most people don’t see is the countless hours of putting…

  • Looking for Moose

    Looking for Moose

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    Jake Bramante

    On Memorial Day my wife and I headed out to the Many Glacier valley in search of moose. My wife loves moose and, even though I was just there, I wanted to walk the Bullhead Lake trail to see if we could see a moose and check out how fast the snow was melting, besides,…

  • Searching for Harlequins

    Searching for Harlequins

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    Jake Bramante

    Some animals can be seen all year round in Glacier National Park while other animals arrive or wake up in springtime and disappear in the fall. Others still shoe up for a very short time and are gone again. Such is the case for the Trillium and the Harlequin Duck. I went out to McDonald…

  • Touch of Glacier Helena

    Touch of Glacier Helena

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    Jake Bramante

    I absolutely love giving my presentation! I get to tell my story while showing video and pictures of my trip. If you followed my blog in 2011, you got the quasi-objective version of the trail. My presentations are more of the story behind the adventure as a whole. This coming Tuesday, I’m speaking again, this…

  • Many Glacier in May – 2013

    Many Glacier in May – 2013

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    Jake Bramante

    As soon as roads start opening up in Glacier National Park, it’s fun to head on out and see what’s going on. In places like Many Glacier, you’ll find no crowds and animals that are looking for food as the long winter releases its icy grip. You’ll also find more snow than you probably were…

  • Howe Lake Looning

    Howe Lake Looning

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    Jake Bramante

    The harried nature of migrations is waning here in the north and things are beginning to settle in. Snow is melting, flowers are breaking ground and bears are emerging. Birds are establishing their territories, building nests and looking to make little ones in their image. It’s for this last reason that we headed up to…

  • Feature Friday – TJ Fallon

    Feature Friday – TJ Fallon

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    Jake Bramante

    One of the greatest things about my project has been the people that I’ve met. TJ followed me on my journey in 2011 and contacted me about hitting the trail together. We ended up finally hiking together on Loon Day last year where we ended up seeing 8 loons (6 all together in Trout Lake). This…

  • First Trillium of the Year

    First Trillium of the Year

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    Jake Bramante

    I went out yesterday to look for Common Loon nests with some fine folks and came across my first trillium of the year. For me, this is one of my happy indicators of Spring which is followed by baby animals, more wildflowers, roads and trails opening up and eventually berries. I’ll blog about the Loon…