Yesterdays: Griz takes trailman's shoe off
An Air Force helicopter was used to rescue lineman George Brady after the Flood of '64. Brady fell about 100 feet working on a pole in the Bad Rock Canyon and tumbled into the river. The helicopter landed on a gravel bar and was able to pick the injured man up. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
June 25, 1954
There was a 100-acre wildfire at Yakinikak Creek up the North Fork near the Canada line. The fire was burning despite a near record snowpack in the mountains. Folks were enjoying a very snowy Logan Pass as the Going-to-the-Sun Road opened for the summer.
60 years ago
June 26, 1964
Crews were making great progress in fixing flood damage. The Great Northern Railway expected to have its first passenger train cross the divide in a few days and Glacier National Park had fixed 99% of the flood damage on the Going-to-the-Sun Road. In less than a month the massive damage had been patched up or fixed completely.
50 years ago
June 28, 1974
Glacier Park naturalist Ed Rothfuss would be leading “eco-treks” in Glacier National Park this summer. The trips were limited to 11 people and they spent a few days in the backcountry learning about the ecology of the park.
40 years ago
June 28, 1984
A grizzly bear treed a trail crew worker in Glacier National Park and pulled his boot off the worker’s foot. Kent Scott suffered minor puncture and scrape wounds, but was back to work the next day. The incident happened on the Boulder Pass Trail. Scott was with other trail crew members when the bear went after them. They all went up trees, but the bear apparently liked Scott. He kicked it in the head with the booted foot and the bear eventually left. He apparently got the boot back because he hiked out with the other trail crew members to Goat Haunt where they got on a boat and Scott was able to get to a hospital for treatment.
30 years
June 30, 1994
Save the Chalets was now a public charity. The goal of the nonprofit was to raise $1.2 million to assist the Park Service in funding sewer and water upgrades at Granite Park and Sperry Chalets, which had been closed down due to sewer concerns. The hope was to reopen the two backcountry shelters by 1996.
20 years ago
June 24, 2004
Plum Creek Timber Co. CEO Rick Holley said he’d like to see more environmental activism, as closing timber sales on public lands helped the company’s own timber business. Plum Creek at the time owned millions of acres of timber and a tighter timber supply meant bigger profits for the company.
10 years ago
June 25, 2014
A late spring snowstorm dumped upwards of 20 inches of snow in Glacier Park’s high country, delaying the opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road.