Show SCENIC playgrounds OF AMERICA by G 51 HILBOURN Z enchanted keyholes Keyho leg of glacier claca i er skyline abhat A spectacular trail tr all balcony that rides like an epaulet along the shoulder ot of the cliffs was completed last summer in glacier national park montana together w with ith the eight nille mile garden wall route rout 0 a already I 1 widely known this new high trail from granite park northward past fifty mountain camp and practically to the canadian border gives the trail lovers of america at last a chance to ride along the continental divide as well as over it in a rapturous three day excursion that Is both beautiful weird and magnificent most host mountain trail trips have a mutual falling they atley climb patiently for half a day or more to some great divide then be begin in to drop again almost immediately with only the briefest of stops on the pinnacle where views were enriched a sand fold the new glacier trail though will make the most of that ecstatic upland prolonging its moments of triumph not only for hours but dayal riders or hikers already conditioned for a considerable climb may make the three day sky trail consecutively as a beginning of the five day north circle route from going to the sun chalets chafets on st mary lake whose boa tride incidentally Is one of the most beautiful in america hikers wishing to avoid a very long first day however should enter the park on the west side instead and ride the early morning bus to logan pass with the main climb thus disposed of they will find the remaining eight miles of minor ups and downs as easy as it Is delightful lake mcdonald now ten miles west by air line lies iles high on the horizon I 1 while by contrast the chasm of logan and mcdonald creeks seem far below it and the streams seem creeping uphill to reach the lake also far below lies iles the automobile road which was the tha first to struggle to the divide in glacier and which even now does the motoring public a favor paradoxically enough by ending in the pass and therefore adding the psychological climax to their trip that will be completely lacking it if the road Is ever completed perhaps Perli aps the most delightful feature of the combined garden carden wall and high trail Is the repeated opportunities it offers to climb the hillside yet above occasionally and thus peep through the keyholes ke kei holes of a bristling divide that not even the famous glacier goats could follow consecutively one of these Is swiftcurrent Swift current pass through which come north az i g t t V 1 I ip 9 A V NV 4 kootenai peak circle travelers from many glacier camps to reach tile high trail or triangle trippers grippers trip pers to reverse the garden carden wall route back to sun camp two others are the saddles in tit alie divide just above the grinnell G glaciers through which you may look lok down on these huge double decked ice fee banks and from which particularly in the after supper slipper hour the numerous goat population of grinnell mountain may be discovered taking an afternoon stroll the next nest day a few miles north of granite on the trail a ten minute climb brings ahern pass and with it the sight of a sullen glacier which disputed the path through the pass in the mining dais oc if thirty years ngo ago and which sometimes hurled luckless pack trains oner oe the clicc ell ff toward I 1 lake a helen far below here too for strenuous hikers there Is niso also a well rewarded luty minute scramble up tile rock slide to the tiled northern north e rn rim of iceberg lake whose ice cake population melt serenely in the july august 1700 feet down tile the cliffs tills view from the iceberg wall Is a spectacle not lot likely duplicated anywhere in north amer lea lind and one that probably not afif fifty ity people have been privileged to see cc 1930 western welt tern ne union |