Yesterdays: 10 years ago, median home price in valley was $218,000
Weather observer for U.S. Weather Bureau Ray Hall working on skis after blizzards left him stuck at Flathead County Airport for three days in January 1954. Luckily he had come prepared to stick around, with food and sleeping bag in tow, but was down to a candy bar by the last day. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
Aug. 14, 1954
Pocket Lake in Glacier National Park, which is perched above Bowman Lake, was still frozen and the Boulder Pass Trail remained closed due to steep snowfields near the pass. It was a result of a snowy winter and cool spring and summer.
60 years ago
Aug. 14, 1964
Four 10-men crews were working in Glacier National Park rebuilding and cleaning up trails. One crew had worked on the Nyack Ranger Station, which flooded and they were building a new bridge across Nyack Creek. Today the ranger station is abandoned, and the creek has no bridge. It’s one of the coldest stream crossings in Glacier.
50 years ago
Aug. 16, 1974
Glacier National Park would soon tackle the issue of snowmobiles in the park. The park could either curb use, extend use and areas where it was allowed, or ban them altogether. It eventually chose the latter.
40 years ago
Aug. 16, 1984
Mark Gould was surprised to see two other climbers as he approached Mount Cleveland’s summit in Glacier National Park. They were two grizzly bears on top of the Park’s highest peak at 10,466 feet. While the story doesn’t mention it, the bears head up into the hills to eat army cutworm moths by the thousands.
30 years ago
Aug. 11, 1994
A big wind blew down the Midway Drive-In screen, but the owners contacted a company that could rebuild it in a matter of days. The drive-in was eventually torn down altogether and is where Murdochs, at the corner of U.S. Highway 2 and Half Moon Road, is today.
20 years ago
Aug. 12, 2004
The Luding family was observing 50 years of operating Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park. Ross and Kathleen K. Luding first took on the contract on April 30, 1954. The family still operates the chalet today.
10 years ago
Aug. 13, 2014
After years of decline, the median sales price of a home in the Flathead Valley rose for the second year in a row and now was $218,000, which was a 7% increase over the year before.