Along Montana & Idaho's
Continental Divide Trail
by Lynna Howard
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We began our Continental Divide trek at the western border of Yellowstone National Park, and ended up, more than 800 miles later, at the southeastern border of Glacier National Park. We hiked through sagebrush, open pinyon-juniper forests, grasslands, aspen groves, vertical jail cells of lodgepole pines, park-like ponderosa pine forests, white pine, Douglas-fir, krummholz clinging to survival like twisted dwarves, avalanche chutes, alpine tundra, and more. We hiked below cliff faces one thousand feet high and forded rivers in shadowed canyons. So what could Glacier National Park offer that we hadn't already seen?
The Continental Divide Trail in Glacier National Park is like the rest of the trail—but on steroids. No hyperbole is too pumped up. The Park's scenery will sink you to your knees or roll you over like a log going downriver. Give up, give in, prepare to be changed.
