Glacier-How many days on each side
We have some friends that are world travelers and they claim that Glacier is the most beautiful place they've been. They liked it over Yellowstone by far. We've been to Yellowstone before but plan o...
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Red Rocks hiking trail out of Many Glacier (east side) is fairly flat. Gently gains elevation away from the stream until you can look down upon the many lakes with moose in them. (we were there for a month in Aug/Sept 2001.)
We hiked to Grinnell ... some took the boat to the end and then hiked up. We hiked the entire thing. There was a group coming back as we hiked up...and they were carrying a female hiker that had fallen and broke her collar bone. Just be aware that you need to be prepared for stuff like this. Once we got up to Grinnell there was a father begging for water for himself and his 6 year old son. He was completely out of water and it was hot. Then once we got to the water's edge... two teen boys jumped out from the shore to a "sand bar". It was not a sand bar. It was a flat narrow span of ice (in August) that moved away from shore when they landed on it. They thought it was funny and clowned around until that iceberg was too far out for them to swim back. 3 hours later...they made it back to shore. By that time the boats were done running so all of them had to hike all the way back...and we just got back to our car in the last little bit of daylight. Take flashlights.
If it's berry season any of the hiking trails can be closed if bears are reported. Check the hiking trail conditions every morning at a Ranger station.
From the Canadian side... out of Waterton... take the boat (one way)down to Goat Haunt Dock... hike over to the camping area... walking on a very long swinging bridge... and then hike back to Waterton. (or buy a round trip and catch a boat at the Goat Haunt dock and ride back.)
We hiked to Grinnell ... some took the boat to the end and then hiked up. We hiked the entire thing. There was a group coming back as we hiked up...and they were carrying a female hiker that had fallen and broke her collar bone. Just be aware that you need to be prepared for stuff like this. Once we got up to Grinnell there was a father begging for water for himself and his 6 year old son. He was completely out of water and it was hot. Then once we got to the water's edge... two teen boys jumped out from the shore to a "sand bar". It was not a sand bar. It was a flat narrow span of ice (in August) that moved away from shore when they landed on it. They thought it was funny and clowned around until that iceberg was too far out for them to swim back. 3 hours later...they made it back to shore. By that time the boats were done running so all of them had to hike all the way back...and we just got back to our car in the last little bit of daylight. Take flashlights.
If it's berry season any of the hiking trails can be closed if bears are reported. Check the hiking trail conditions every morning at a Ranger station.
From the Canadian side... out of Waterton... take the boat (one way)down to Goat Haunt Dock... hike over to the camping area... walking on a very long swinging bridge... and then hike back to Waterton. (or buy a round trip and catch a boat at the Goat Haunt dock and ride back.)
