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GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. â Isaiah Sullivan can measure the intensity of this yearâs hot summer by the lines of visitors outside the boat rental business he manages on the shores of Lake McDonald. Once the afternoon heat intensifies, the line to paddle on cool water fed by melting snowpack doesnât dissipate until he puts out the closed sign at 7 p.m.
Many visitors would rather just cool off or wait for smoky haze from forest fires to lift, rather than brave slopes of the surrounding peaks in unusually high heat and limited visibility. The temperature Sunday at Lake McDonald was in the 90s, as yet another searing heat wave settled over the northern Rocky Mountains.
National park crowds across the West are braving intense heat and fire dangers
Christopher Rowland, Justin Franz, Ari Schneider and Deby Dixon, The Washington Post
July 18, 2021
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Isaiah Sullivan, the rental manager for the Glacier Park Boat Co., helps kayakers get into the water at Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Mont., on July 16. The Livingston Range in the distance is obscured by smoke from wildfires around the Pacific Northwest.Photo by Justin Franz for The Washington Post.
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. - Isaiah Sullivan can measure the intensity of this year s hot summer by the lines of visitors outside the boat rental business he manages on the shores of Lake McDonald. Once the afternoon heat intensifies, the line to paddle on cool water fed by melting snowpack doesn t dissipate until he puts out the closed sign at 7 p.m.
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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