126 Miles thru Glacier National Park – Part III

Day 7: Granite Park to Fifty Mountain Campground (12 miles + 3-mile return side trip to Sue Lake) Our luck with the weather had run out. It rained all through the night and we woke up in a wet tent under a thick cloud cover. The trek to our next destination, Fifty Mountain Campground, was…

126 Miles thru Glacier National Park – Part II

Day 4: Red Eagle Lake To Gunsight Campground (19.8 miles) Though our daily mileage had been increasing each day, our pace (and the daylight hours) stayed the same. So this morning we ate breakfast in the dark, attempting to get an extra early start on our first 20-miler. We had 13 miles of flat walking…

126 Miles thru Glacier National Park – Part I

The average tourist spends 2.5 hours in Glacier National Park, which is about what it takes to drive the Going to the Sun Road. But you can’t even scratch the surface of Glacier’s 1 million acres of preserved wilderness in 2.5 hours. To experience more of what this park has to offer, we decided to…