montana

This summer, Max and I took our very first trip to Glacier NP. Aside from seeing the park and playing tourists, our goal was to join Eric Hardwick and his team on their yearly pilgrimage to open up new canyons in Montana. Eric is the creator of the Canyoning the 406 website, devoted to posting beta for Montana canyons. Due to the short season and the dearth of Montana canyoneers, Glacier canyons are currently largely unexplored. At the beginning of August, we took the trailer and drove 10 hours from Washington to Glacier to meet up with Eric and the rest of the crew. Just as our luck would have it, the weather that week was unusually wet and stormy. Evidence of past fires was abundant in the park, but we experienced thunderstorms almost every night, forcing us to recalibrate our plans daily. It was after getting an inch [...]