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Gunsight Pass Backpack – 2025
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The trip up and over Gunsight Pass, past Lake Ellen Wilson, and over to Sperry is an incredible trip through three drainages in Glacier National Park. We usually do it as one big day, but for this trip, we were doing some animal surveys in the park and slow walked it over three days for…
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Christensen Meadows 2025
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After a bumpy ride along the Inside North Fork Road, a short, level walk to Christensen Meadows is a classic “the journey is the destination” hike full of birds and wildflowers in Glacier National Park. I went to this quiet corner along Camas Creek for both the birds and the wildflowers and it did not…
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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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Avalanche Lake Bike and Hike 2025
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Avalanche Lake early in the season is a rare treat. If you time it just right, you can bike the road to the Avalanche Lake trailhead, and walk up on consolidated snow, avoiding punching through or the mud. You also might just get lucky and have the whole place to yourself. It was a chilly…
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Clouds Rest, Sunrise Lakes, and Sunrise High Sierra Camp
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(This Throwback Thursday blog features the hike up to the summit of Clouds Rest, over to Sunrise Lakes, and a brief visit to Sunrise High Sierra Camp in Yosemite National Park that I hiked in 2017 while working on my Day Hikes of Yosemite National Park Map Guide.) From the forest along Tioga Road to…
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Chasm Lake
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Tucked beneath the iconic, towering cliff walls of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, lies the sparkling Chasm Lake. Along the way, you get sprawling views, an emerald tarn, and a splendid waterfall. Starting off at the Longs Peak Ranger Station, we set foot on the trail and began climbing. The beginning of the…
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Grand Ridge
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(This Throwback Thursday blog features the hike from Obstruction Point to Deer Park and back again along Grand Ridge in Olympic National Park that I hiked in 2018 while working on my Day Hikes of Olympic National Park Map Guide.) Starting from Obstruction Point, the hike from Grand Ridge is a breathtaking trek with sprawling…
