Tag: glacier

  • Touch of Glacier – Spokane

    Touch of Glacier – Spokane

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    Jake Bramante

    For those of you living in the Spokane Valley, I’ll be doing the presentation of my adventure in 2011 to hike all the trails in Glacier. You’ll get to hear all about the ups and downs that an adventure like this brings with photos and videos and the stories that go with them. It’s part…

  • Jake ‘n Blake 2013 Western Montana Tour

    Jake ‘n Blake 2013 Western Montana Tour

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    Jake Bramante

    I just came out with my Going-to-the-Sun Road Driving Guide and my good buddy Blake Passmore of Climb Glacier National Park fame has come out with Volume 3 of his Climb Glacier National Park series. His latest book features routes to peak summits in the Northern Highline, Lake McDonald and Sperry Basin areas. I actually…

  • Easter Weekend 2013

    Easter Weekend 2013

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    Jake Bramante

    I’m getting antsy for hiking with all of the beautiful weather we’ve been having so my wife and I headed up to Glacier National Park again on Saturday of Easter weekend. While we didn’t see anything big (although we did see wolf, bear and moose tracks) we saw lots of beautiful scenery and loads of…

  • Freezeout Lake 2013

    Freezeout Lake 2013

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    Jake Bramante

    I’d heard about the March Snow Geese migration that goes past a lake southeast of Glacier National Park called Freezeout Lake (FWP calls it Freezout Lake) and knew that I wanted to go there. The peak of the season is towards the end of March and I happened to have a free weekend, so we…

  • Kidney Stoned in the ER

    Kidney Stoned in the ER

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    Jake Bramante

    Went to bed on Monday night feeling fine, then woke up around 12:30 a.m. with an “awesome” pain in my side. I tried to tough it out until the next morning as I don’t like to use the ER unless it truly is an emergency. After a couple of hours of pain and nausea “stuff”,…

  • Feature Friday – Tyler Rasmussen

    Feature Friday – Tyler Rasmussen

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    Jake Bramante

    I first met Tyler with an email he shot me right before my hiking project got into full swing in May of 2011. In the almost two years since, he’s become quite the blogger and I love reading his stories. His great combination of writing and photos is a wonderful balance. His adventures are great,…

  • Backpacking advice?

    Backpacking advice?

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    Jake Bramante

    One day you have winter, while another, you have teases of spring. This is the time of year that gets us looking at summer pictures of Glacier National Park and dreaming of trails, mountains, lakes, birds, bears and huckleberries. It’s also the time of year that I get a lot of people emailing me, asking…

  • Touch of Glacier Speaking Events

    Touch of Glacier Speaking Events

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    Jake Bramante

    I always get excited when I get to give my presentation of my 2011 adventure. If you have seen my trail blog videos, you get little peeks into the actual experience of my trip, but the focus is on the trail. With my presentations, you get the story of my encounters with animals, how I…

  • Feature Friday – The Skyline Experience

    Feature Friday – The Skyline Experience

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    Jake Bramante

    I got this email from a Mr. Alex Blondeau who has introduced me to a route that I now want to do called the Skyline Experience. It’s an off-trail experience that starts out at the Cracker Lake trailhead, crosses Canyon Creek, climbs Wynn Mountain, then Cracker, then Mt. Siyeh, then descends down into the Cataract…