HELENA, MONTANA —A wildfire has cut off the return route for dozens of people staying
in a Glacier National Park backcountry chalet, leaving them the choice
of remaining until rangers tell them it’s safe or hiking out on a
longer, more difficult trail, park officials said Friday.
Park rangers also planned to lead out 39 other hikers who were staying
in backcountry campsites near fires that broke out after a passing
lightning storm Thursday, Glacier spokeswoman Lauren Alley said.
Peak season
It’s peak tourist season at the Montana park, and the stone chalet built
more than a century ago is a top attraction in one of the busiest parts
of Glacier. There are typically between 40 and 50 guests and 10 staff
members at the chalet each night, with most visitors arriving by foot or
horse along a steep trail nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers) from Lake
McDonald Lodge on the park’s main roadway.
A lightning strike ignited a fire in the forest somewhere between the
lodge and the chalet. Neither structure is threatened, but park
officials determined that it was unsafe for those at the chalet to
return by the same trail Friday.
Thirty-nine of the 42 guests staying at the Sperry Chalet decided to
hike out and three stayed behind, said Suzie Menke, the office manager
of Belton Chalets Inc., which runs the chalet.
They must take a rugged trail more than 13 miles (21 kilometers) long
that crosses two mountain passes and can take eight to 10 hours to walk.
That trail ends on the eastern side of the park, on the other side of
the Continental Divide from Lake McDonald Lodge.
For those who stay, the chalet has running water, a full-service kitchen
and 17 private rooms, but it doesn’t have electricity and only spotty
cellphone coverage.
“The good news is they got resupplied yesterday,” Alley said.
Despite the sudden outbreak of fires, most areas of the park are still
open to the record number of tourists who are flocking to Glacier this
year. More than 1 million people visited the park in July, the first
time so many people have been in Glacier over the course of a single
month.
Wildfires across the West
Dozens of fires are burning across the West, and federal and state
fire managers planned to raise the National Fire Preparedness Level to
its highest point Friday. That Level 5 signals most firefighting
resources are being used and that assistance may be needed from military
and other nations. The level was last raised to 5 in 2015.
In Oregon, a fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation destroyed two
houses and threatened dozens of others. The fire had burned more than 30
square miles (78 square kilometers) by late Thursday, and one
firefighter suffered a minor injury.
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