Snow Forecast in West Glacier Park

[jmbgeg]

EB 7/8 route.

Wow.

 

[pennyk]

I am on the EB 8, just left MSP on Monday morning. I boarded 8 in West Glacier on Sunday morning. Snow flurries were expected yesterday at the higher elevationss. I did a Red Bus Tour on Saturday and the weather was great, however, it had snowed last week and some snow remained at the peaks.

Every hiker that I talked to encounted snow or sleet in the past week.

I had not heard if they were predicting snow at the lower elevations (train tracks), but there is certainly snow at the higher elevations now.

 

[yarrow]

i lived in browning,mt.(the seasonal station stop just east of glacier park)for 6 months one year and hiked in the park every chance i got. we got snowed on on memorial day, 4th of july and labor day that year on our hikes. the main problem was wind however. i was told that the giant fences along the tracks on the big, exposed curve into browning were to keep the wind from blowing the train off the tracks.

 

[Jeremy]

By the looks of things here in the west, winter will be early. One of our maple trees is already losing its leaves big-time. I'll be on 28/8 starting the 13th so I'll see what it's like then.

I think the fences are to keep snow from drifting across the tracks but "blowing the train off of the tracks" sounds better.

Jeremy