Glacier County chief., 1939-06-30
GLACIER PARK SEASON IS ON:
HOTELS, CAMPS, CHALETS ARE OPEN

With the opening of hotels and
chalets on June IS and the arrival
of the summer force of temporary
rangers and ranger naturalists, the
1889 season at Glacier National
park is now in full swing. The
hotels at Glacier park, Many Gla-
cier and Lake Mcdonald, have
been groomed for visitors, and a
small army of "hashers," "sheet-
snatchers," "bubble queens" "pearl
divers" and "pack rats" Gas the
washers Wa and porters i are called in park
slang) has. arrived to serve the patrons.
Chalets at Two Medicine, Sun camp
and Bolton are open and those at
Sperry, Cutbank. st. Mary's and Gran
lite park begin operations on July l..
The familiar red buses" are again
carrying visitors through Glacier ma
tional park and into adjoining Water
ton Lakes national park in Canada.
Saddle horses with the picturesque
wranglers who care for them, have
moved into the park for the summer,
and those who prefer to get away from
less Travelled sections of the park on
nearly 900 miles of trails.
Power boats and rowboats are now
on the lakes for the benefit of fisher
men and those who just like a boat
ride.
Summer Train Schedule
The Great Northern railways EN-
pire Builder" which has been making
numerous unscheduled stops at both
Glacier Park and Bolton stations bor-
dering the park to discharge passen-
gers, has resumed its summer schedule
of stopping for several minutes each
day. Planes are landing at the Glacier
Park airport and various bus lines are
operating coaches to the park on reg
ular schedules.
Motorists have been registering at
the entrance checking stations since
June 8, and many have taken the spec
tacular drive over Logan pass by the
Going-to-t he-Sun highway. This road
has been open in part for more than
two months, and on June the plowS
cleared the last of the SnowbankS which
blocked the upper elevations of the
highway; o,,, o,r,,, o,o,,na so+o
was made possible by unseasonably
warm weather which thawed much of
the snow and ice during April and
by the fact that most of the snow
this winter fell late and therefore was
not heavily packed.
Road Cut Through Snow
Near the 6,654-foot crest elevation
of the highway at Logan pass the
motorists may still have the thrill OF
driving for short distances over clear,
dry road between walls of plowed snow
many times higher than their cars.
CampgroundS and picnic sites are
ready for visitors, and force of ID
temporary rangers and 9 temporary
ranger naturalists are now augmenting
the year-round staff of men in green.
These men will furnish protective and
International services, the ranger ma
turalists in particular being trained to
give authentic and interesting Scien-
tific data about the parks natural
phenomena.
All funds allotted for the hiring of
seasonal employees for the current year
are being expended. In addition, crews
of CCC boys and ERA workers are
maintaining and improving trails and
roadsides as well as campgrounds.
FirefighterS on Duty
The parks fire fighting force is now
on duty. A fire school was held from
June to at park headquarters, and
the old-time, experienced fire guards
and lookoutS are back at their posts
at strategic points in the park:
Although to many people June Is
season, this Is not strictly true, for
it is estimated that more than 5000
persons visited the park area between
the first of April and that date. Among
these were Crown Prince Olav and
Crown Princess Martha of Norway, to-
gether with their retinue, who stopped
at Two Medicine from June to June
and motored to many Of the other