Hiking Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks, 3rd A Guide to More Than 60 of the Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures

by Molvar, Erik

• ISBN13: 9780762736324
• ISBN10: 0762736321
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: FalconGuides

Summary

Completely revised and updated, this guide features more than 850 miles of trails for discovering Glacier and Waterton Lakes

Author Biography

Veteran author and backcountry explorer Erik Molvar discovered backpacking while working on a volunteer trails crew in the North Cascades of Washington. He is the author of more than a dozen FalconGuides for such places as Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Olympic National Park, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Park, as well as Colorado's Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Natural History	p. 1
Using This Guide	p. 4
Planning Your Trip	p. 4
A Few Words of Caution	p. 7
Short Strolls and Nature Walks	p. 11
Glacier National Park	p. 11
Waterton Lakes National Park	p. 19
Trail Finder Table	p. 22
Map Legend	p. 24
The Hikes
The North Fork	p. 25
Boulder Pass	p. 27
Bowman Lake-Brown Pass	p. 33
Akokala Lake	p. 34
Numa Ridge Lookout	p. 36
Quartz Lakes Loop	p. 37
Logging Lake	p. 38
Connecting Hikes	p. 41
The Lake McDonald Area	p. 43
Trout Lake	p. 45
Huckleberry Mountain Lookout	p. 49
Apgar Lookout	p. 50
Lake McDonald	p. 52
Lincoln Lake	p. 53
Fish Lake	p. 55
Mount Brown Lookout	p. 57
Snyder Lakes	p. 58
Avalanche Lake	p. 59
Additional Hikes	p. 61
The Highline and Waterton Lake Vicinity	p. 63
Hidden Lake	p. 65
The Garden Wall	p. 67
The Northern Highline	p. 70
Waterton Valley	p. 72
Connecting Hikes	p. 76
The Southern Sector	p. 79
Harrison Lake	p. 81
Loneman Lookout	p. 83
The Nyack-Coal Creek Loop	p. 84
Lake Isabel	p. 88
Scalplock Lookout	p. 92
Firebrand Pass-Ole Lake	p. 94
Additional Hikes	p. 96
Two Medicine	p. 99
Scenic Point	p. 101
Cobalt Lake-Two Medicine Pass	p. 103
Upper Two Medicine Lake	p. 105
Dawson-Pitamakan	p. 106
Cut Bank Creek	p. 109
Medicine Grizzly Lake-Triple Divide Pass	p. 113
Connecting Hikes	p. 117
The St. Mary Valley	p. 119
Red Eagle Lake	p. 121
Otokomi Lake	p. 126
St. Mary and Virginia Falls	p. 127
St. Mary Lake	p. 128
Gunsight Pass	p. 130
Piegan Pass	p. 134
Siyeh Pass	p. 136
Connecting Hikes	p. 138
Many Glacier	p. 139
Cracker Lake	p. 141
The Grinnell Complex	p. 143
Swiftcurrent Pass	p. 147
Iceberg Lake	p. 149
Ptarmigan Tunnel	p. 151
Poia Lake-Redgap Pass	p. 153
Additional Hikes	p. 156
The Belly River Country	p. 157
The Belly River Trail	p. 159
Mokowanis River-Stoney Indian Pass	p. 162
Slide Lake-Gable Pass	p. 165
Connecting Hikes	p. 168
Waterton Lakes National Park	p. 169
The Carthew-Alderson Trail	p. 171
Bertha Lake	p. 175
Crypt Lake	p. 177
Vimy Peak	p. 180
Lineham Falls	p. 182
Rowe Lakes	p. 184
The Tamarack Trail	p. 186
Blakiston Valley	p. 189
The Snowshoe Trail-Twin Lakes	p. 192
Lost Lake-Avion Ridge	p. 195
Goat Lake	p. 198
The Oil Basin Loop	p. 200
Additional Hikes	p. 204
Extended Trips	p. 205
The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail	p. 206
The Great Northern Traverse	p. 207
The Highline Trail	p. 208
The North Circle	p. 208
Further Reading	p. 210
For More Information	p. 211
Fishing Opportunities	p. 212
Backcountry Campground Table	p. 214
Index	p. 217
About the Authors	p. 219
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