Glacier struggles to teach park values to 'selfie generation'
A mountain goat approaches the Hidden Lake Trail in Glacier National Park on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Two park visitors take a selfie near Logan Pass. (Chris Peterson/Hungry Horse News)
A group takes a photo near Siyeh Pass in Glacier National Park on Aug. 26, 2020. (Photo taken by Philip Granrud)
Hikers ascend a snow-covered section of the Hidden Lake Trail in Glacier National Park on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier Park Superintendent Jeff Mow said it was 2016 when park staff witnessed a visitor strip down to his shorts, wade into the frigid waters of Iceberg Lake and make a rapid swim for the water body’s largest floating ice mass.
The sequence of events was caught on camera, as was the end product of the visitor standing proudly on one of the lake’s namesakes — frozen structures that melt more with each passing season at Glacier National Park...
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