Gunsight Pass Traverse, Glacier National Park

Last year on a cross-country road trip I stopped at Glacier National Park. Not knowing anything about the place I asked one of the rangers what her favorite trail was. “Honestly, they’re all amazing, but I love the Gunsight Pass traverse. But it’s impassable right now,” she responded.

“How impassable?” I asked with a cheeky grin.

An hour later, just after noon, I was packing up a day pack and grabbing my crampons and ice axe with intentions of making it from Gunsight Pass Trailhead to Lake McDonald Lodge by nightfall and hitch-hiking back. It ended up being one of the most beautiful hikes I’ve been on with this gallery to show for it:

4 thoughts on “Gunsight Pass Traverse, Glacier National Park”

  1. One of my favorite hikes! Although I can’t for the life of me think why it would be “impassable” save for fires??

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