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| Hiking | 7.60 Miles |
2,285 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.60 Miles | 5 Hrs | | 1.52 mph |
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| partners | | I'm just going to power through these... I wrote the hike description for this one, so that's got most of the details. We were joined for the first part of the hike by several of the hikers we'd met at the Chalet, the two gentlemen peeled off just after the pass to tackle the Swiftcurrent Lookout Tower and the ladies stayed with us nearly to Red Rock Lake.
What makes this trip most interesting (other than the fact that we'd been told that the trail was not passable by rangers at the Saint Mary visitor center), was the car shuttle at the end. We'd left one car at the Rising Sun campground, and the other at the Loop trailhead on the Going to the Sun Highway. Of course, because we weren't expecting to hike the pass, we figured we were covered. Instead we ended up at Swiftcurrent Lodge - miles from any of our vehicles. The ladies we'd hiked with were in the same boat.
After begging a ride from yet another Chalet veteran who we bumped into at the Swiftcurrent Inn restaurant as far as Saint Mary VC (and they weren't even going - they were just that nice!) we managed to get another ride from the young man who'd been our boat captain on day #1 - Graham. These two rides alone saved us nearly 3 hours of waiting for the $10p/p lodge-to-lodge shuttle (there were 5 of us!). Tibber and I along with our hiking pals then drove over Logan Pass, through the road construction and picked up the cars. By the time we got back to Rising Sun and our well-deserved cocktails, we'd spent more time on car shuttle than we had on the trail! Take that you automobile efficiency proponents! |
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