Glacier News

Shuttle ridership at Glacier National Park was down about 20 percent this year because of a later start, shorter hours and mechanical difficulties, officials said Wednesday. "We haven't decided what changes to make next season," said park spokeswoman Amy Vanderbilt. "We'll hold some planning sessions to analyze the data later this fall."

It's too early for civilians. As dawn's first light falls on the jagged peaks, creeps down the dwindling glaciers and glides across glass-faced Swiftcurrent Lake, most of the tourists in the Many Glacier Hotel are still snoozing.

Glacier National Park officials decided Tuesday to discontinue regular searches for a hiker reported missing last month. No new clues on 27-year-old Yi-Jien Hwa's whereabouts were found last weekend after search teams scoured locations adjacent on his planned 100-mile hike through a remote area of the park.

It's a must-see: dramatic vistas, more than 200 lakes, 175 named mountains and 40 glaciers, tucked within 1 million acres of natural beauty. That's Glacier National Park.

Boingo Wireless, the global market leader in Wi-Fi, announces the addition of NomadISP to the Boingo Roaming Network, giving Boingo members access to close to 300 new hotspots located at RV parks, campgrounds and parks throughout the United States and Canada. With the addition of the NomadISP network, Boingo members will be able to enjoy broadband connections as they take their vacations this summer, and whenever they are traveling across North America and staying at a campground or RV park -- either with their laptop computers or their Wi-Fi enabled cell phones.

A man wanted in connection to a string of burglaries to cabins in Moose City was arrested Friday after apparently spending almost a week in the wilderness along the U.S.-Canadian border. John Paul Lynn, 44, is accused of breaking into several cabins and shooting at the long-closed Trail Creek border station, north of Polebridge.

There are miles of trail to hike at Glacier National Park, with breathtaking views unlike any other. Stepping into the park is like taking a step backward in time. But most of the park is still wild. And with parents along for this trip, everything from hiking the terrain to the music selection will be a test.

Searchers continued to comb Glacier National Park’s backcountry wilderness Monday, hunting for a hiker now a full week overdue. Tuesday, however, will bring a substantially scaled-back effort, unless new evidence emerges as to the fate of 27-year-old Yi-Jien Hwa. “We are still hopeful that additional information will eventually surface that will lead us to Yi-Jien,” incident commander Patrick Suddath said. “But we know that the odds for that outcome are reduced with each day that goes by. In the absence of a promising development, we will be scaling back the operation.”

Those looking for fun destinations to stay while vacationing in Montana can head to the Glacier National Park or Big Sky. One of Montana’s most popular attractions, the Glacier National Park was established with the objective of preserving the area’s natural scenic value. If looking for great skiing and snowboarding, Big Sky is the perfect alternative.

Monday marks day six of the search for a hiker who's missing in Glacier National Park,and 50 searchers are ready to set out just after daybreak to look for Yi-Jien Hwa. He was last seen on August 11th, and planned to finish his back country hike through Glacier on August 18th. His car was found in the Logan Pass Visitors Center parking lot.

Search teams scoured Glacier National Park's backcountry Thursday, hunting for an overdue backpacker presumed lost in the wilderness. Yi-Jien Hwa, 27, of both Kentucky and Malaysia, was due back on Monday, Aug. 18. When he did not call family as planned, park rangers were alerted, said Glacier spokeswoman Norma Sosa.

There will be balloons and a cake shaped like Glacier National Park, with 100 candles burning a paraffin forest fire across the frosted landscape. There likely will be silly hats and noisemakers, too. "But this is way more than just a birthday party," said Kass Hardy. "This is a whole program of events that look back at the past and, hopefully, build for the future."

The tourists huddled in a shivering pack amid what should have been the heat of July, crowding around Laura Kloeck while she explained a bit about climate change. “There is definitely a frightening side to global warming,” Kloeck told them, “but there is hope, too.” Hope hip-deep, white and wintry and piled high in mid-July atop Glacier National Park's popular Logan Pass. Here, where trails remained buried beneath snowpack well into summer's season, Kloeck talked on about a warming world.

Officials with Glacier National Park say that a struggling national economy combined with high fuel prices are effecting tourism in the region this year. The National Park Service reports that visits to Glacier National Park were down 8.6% for the first seven months of 2008. Following a drop in July of 2.5%, the park has had 1.9 million visitors this year, down from 1.18 million for the first seven months of 2007.

WEST GLACIER, Mont. - I'm not a particularly religious person. But for some reason on my two recent visits to this storied place, talk of God kept popping up.