By TRISTAN SCOTT
Flathead Beacon
POLEBRIDGE, Mont. â It s not quite 9 a.m. and North Fork District Ranger Jim Dahlstrom has heard the names Bowman and Kintla lakes mispronounced so many times he s stopped correcting people, turning his attention instead to the more pressing business of parsing visitors â sizing them up and winnowing the self-reliant from the totally helpless.
On the index of neophyte national park day-tripper, a garbled place-name pronunciation is a strong indication of greenhorn status, but, from a public safety standpoint, it s far from the most serious red flag that Dahlstrom will encounter today. Is this road going to be rough because I ve never changed a flat tire? inquires one newly minted North Fork sightseer wondering whether to pilot her rented KIA deeper into Glacier National Park s wild interior, and to whom Dahlstrom is exceedingly helpful and polite but nevertheless ranks in the back half of the helpless category, knowi
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