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HUNGRY HORSE NEWS — VACATION EDITION — 3

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Note hikers circled at le ft. Grinnell is six-mile relatively easy trip by trail from , is park’s second largest by taking regularly scheduled boats that cross Swiftcurrent and Josephine lakes In direction Distance can be shortened more than two miles a section of Hudson bay-Columbia river continental divide. of glacier. Mountain back of ice mass is northeast side of .

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- m m Nanny and kid on Mt. Brown. Telephoto lens are not needed. m Sperry glacier is park’s largest. Glaciers have been generally shrinking since 1890, but Sperry still covers equivalent of 70 city blocks and is up to 300 feet thick. The ice mass Is reached by taking slx-m.le trail from Lake McDonald hotel to Sperry chalets, then Z/z miles to glacier. It’s a real way to see the park.

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tan When Two Medicine creek is running full. Trick falls appear* like any other waterfall. In July and August with low water, trick It is said when trail crew of Trick falls becomes evident showing most of water using under- Goats are unusually curious. what caused noise. natural bridge I* formed. dynamites snow, goats come down to see ground channel. Phenomenon Is one way a Other animals flee at the “boom, Incidentally goats then live up Falls is 400 yards from hard-surfaced road into Two Medicine lake. to their reputation and proceed to eat paper used to wrap dynamite. Dawn Mist falls is in Belly river district on trail to Many Glacier.

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