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Glacier National Park

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Glacier National Park
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I talked Robby and CJ into hiking the Highline trail with me.

The shuttle buses only held two seats open to shuttle people between the Loop and Logan Pass, which could have greatly complicated our efforts to get home if we hiked down to the Loop.
I decided to try to play it safe by trying to hike out and back on the Highline Trail.



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The trail was very crowded.  We had no problem finding someone to take our picture.

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First look at the Granite Park Chalette, which is still well over an hour away

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PANO - scroll to the right

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I had wanted to hike to the top of Swiftcurrent Lookout like I did in 2008, but I realized we didn't have enough time to get to the top, then backtrack the entire Highline Trail.
Robby asked if we could go to the top of the Grinell Glacier Overlook on the way back, and I said 'sure'. 
It would be something new to see.
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We're high up on the Overlook trail looking down on the Highline trail.
You can see the other end of Lake McDonald from here

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Finally we'd reached the top.
I was surprised how good the view was.

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You can see the top of the Grinell Glacier trail below leading up to the lake that used to be Grinell Glacier

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CJ and Rob resting on the first overlook.

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CJ reached the highest overlook
We went back and convinced Robby the view up here was significantly better than the view below

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We saw a few mountain goats in the distance

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Finally back on the cables

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Robby points out a mountain goat that CJ missed right beside the trail.

We found a very large line of people waiting for a bus back to Apgar Village at Logan Pass, and there were over 30 people in front of us waiting for shuttles that only hold about 12 people each.
Not good.
We wanted for perhaps 45 minutes before CJ got the last seat on a shuttle.
Another 10-15 minutes later Robby got a seat, then finally Dusty got a seat on the very last shuttle.

16 miles roundtrip

Exhausting but great day
Calm winds and sunny or mostly sunny skies the whole day.

In hindsight it would have been a shorter day if we had hiked down to the Loop.

We saw a total of something like 150 people on the trail


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Glacier National Park

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Glacier National Park
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Apgar Village
Glacier National Park