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Visual Education
LAKE McDERMOTT AND MANY GLACIER HOTEL, GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Tenderfooting Through Glacier
National Park
A. E. Demaray Editor, National Park Service
THERE are several ways of seeing Glacier National Park. The easiest and most comfortable is, of course, by automobile and launch. From the eastern entrance automobile roads lead to Two Medicine Lake, to Cut Bank Chalets, to St. Mary Lakes and to Lake McDermott, where are located the Many Glacier Hotel and Chalets. From the western entrance the automobile road leads to the head of Lake McDonald, the largest of Glacier's two hundred and fifty lakes. The Transmountain Highway, which will connect the east and west side road systems through Logan Pass, is now under construction but will require several years for completion.
From Two Medicine Lake, St. Mary Lake, Lake McDermott and Lake McDonald excellent and picturesque trails lead up into the mountain fastnesses. Saddle horses may be obtained at each of these points, and this second way of seeing the Park is probably the
most popular way, for there are more saddle horses used in Glacier Park than in any other similar recreation area in all America. But if you are fairly strong, in good condition and fond of walking, the third and by far the cheapest way to see Glacier is yours for the effort.
The Camper's Outfit
For a week's or two weeks' trip the following outfit is about all that is required: One suit of old clothes (riding trousers being preferable for both men and women), one sweater or mackinaw wool jacket, one suit of medium-weight underwear, three pairs of heavy wool socks, one pair of stout lace shoes and leggings or hunting boots, two pairs of cotton gloves, one old felt hat, and one rubber raincoat. The extra articles, together with a few toilet needs, a tin cup, matches, camera and several extra rolls of film, can easily be carried in a pack on the back.
The Park hotels and chalets are in most instances located within a day's walking distance of one another; box lunches are put up for the horseback rider and the hiker. Trails are well blazed and can be followed without a guide.
Suggested Schedule for Walking Trip
The following hiking trip covering two weeks is outlined to show the possibilities :
First Day. Belton, or western entrance, to Lewis's Hotel at head of Lake McDonald; 14 miles, practically level walking.
Second Day. Lewis's to Sperry Chalets, 7 miles, climb of 3,000 feet. From chalets a foot trail leads to Sperry Glacier ; 2 miles, 2,000 feet to climb. One should not venture on glaciers without a guide.
Third Day. Sperry Chalets to Going-to-the-Sun Chalets on St. Mary Lake, crossing the Continen
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