{"id":6295,"date":"2011-07-28T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2011-07-28T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:21:57","slug":"another-life-lister-glacier-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2011\/07\/28\/another-life-lister-glacier-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Another life lister: Glacier National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6297\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6297\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/300px-St_Mary_Lake.jpg\" alt=\"St. Mary Lake at Glacer National Park. Credit: Wikipedia\" title=\"300px-St_Mary_Lake\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/300px-St_Mary_Lake.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/300px-St_Mary_Lake-100x48.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/300px-St_Mary_Lake-250x119.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/300px-St_Mary_Lake-110x52.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/300px-St_Mary_Lake-175x84.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Mary Lake at Glacer National Park. Credit: Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>Glacier National Park in Northern Montana is one of those big-and-wild places that seems the most remote of the national parks in the Lower 48. Rick at Best Hike calls it &#8220;arguably the best hiking park in the continental United States.&#8221; Money quote: &#8220;We have seen more grizzly bears here than in any other park in the USA. You <em>must<\/em> be bear aware to hike Glacier.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Since I had such great feedback on yesterday&#8217;s post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2011\/07\/26\/on-my-life-list-grand-teton-n-p\/\">Grand Teton National Park<\/a>, I figured why not add some links for Glacier as well: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glacierhikers.com\/index.html\">A Slow Hiker&#8217;s Guide to Glacier National Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besthike.com\/northamerica\/rockies\/north_circle.html\">North Circle, which Best Hikes calls one of the 10 best in the world.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/glac\/planyourvisit\/hikingthetrails.htm\">National Park Service&#8217;s hiking page.<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glacierassociation.org\/store\/\">Glacier Association Bookstore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glacier.national-park.com\/hike.htm\">Glacier N.P. hiking page. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backpacker.com\/destinations\/category\/221\">Backpacker Magazine&#8217;s recommended Glacier National Park hikes. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/destination\/glacier-national-park\">EveryTrail destination page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfl.fhwa.dot.gov\/projects\/gtsr\/\">Highway to the Sun page. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glacier-national-park-travel-guide.com\/our-grizzly-bear-encounter-while-hiking-avalanche-lake-in-glacier.html\">Blog post: Grizzly encounter at Glacier. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I&#8217;d want to know before going to Glacier: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Which areas are losing the most ice from global warming? <\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the best thing to do if you spot a bear on the trail? <\/li>\n<li>How much of the park is accessible by season? Is it all inaccessible in winter? <\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the best moderate day hike for somebody touring the Northern Rockies? <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please chime in with your Glacier experiences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glacier National Park in Northern Montana is one of those big-and-wild places that seems the most remote of the national parks in the Lower 48. Rick at Best Hike calls it &#8220;arguably the best hiking park in the continental United&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2011\/07\/28\/another-life-lister-glacier-national-park\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[435],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}