AT#257 - Travel to Glacier National Park and Western Montana

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2010

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Karl Anders who returns to the show to talk about travel to Western Montana and in particular to the majestic Glacier National Park. Karl encourages us to drive the Going to the Sun Highway but then to get off the blacktop and hick some of the back country of the park (preferably in a group large enough to discourage the curiosity of bears). He describes some of his favorite hikes such as the trail to Hidden Lakes. Glacier is often rated as one of the top places in the United States to hike or backpack. The valleys of Glacier are carved by glacial activity although there aren't as many glaciers still in the park. Karl also talks about some nearby destinations like the National Bison Refuge, Bitterroot Valley and nearby Missoula with its museum to Smokejumpers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 257. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Hidden Lakes,
0:17.6	Glaciers, and Big Sky as we go to Glacier National Park and Western Montana.
0:23.2	I know that I should be heading home,
0:29.2	but maybe not, maybe not today. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.5	into this week's interview I do have two news stories for you. One is an
0:41.1	airline survey just came out and this was from Zaggett and they ranked which were the best airlines.
0:47.0	The top three airlines were Virgin America, JetBlue, and Hawaiian, according to their customers.
0:53.3	But even those airlines didn't do that great on a 30-point scale,
0:56.8	they scored 21, 19, and 16.
1:00.4	Or as they pointed out in the article at Chris Ellaiet.org.
1:04.0	That would be a C, a D, and an F, and those are the top three.
1:07.3	Everybody else was an F.
1:09.0	The kind of comments they got were, well at least they haven't killed me yet, and my bags get better service, but they pay
1:14.7	extra.
1:15.7	So not happy times in the airline industry, but if you think you can change it, you might be interested
1:20.1	to know that Delta Airlines is hiring 1,000 new flight attendance, although 100,000 people
1:27.1	have applied, so get your resume in quickly.
1:30.1	Links to both of those stories at the show notes at amateur traveler.com.
1:34.0	I'd like to welcome back to the show Carl Andrews who's come to talk to us about
1:40.0	the great big sky state of Montana.
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