Yesterdays

10 years ago

Aug. 4, 2005

A retired neurosurgeon from Jackson Hole, Wyo. studied the brains of grizzly bears. Dr. George Stevenson found that a grizzly nose is thousands of times more developed than a human's and even more than a dog's. "I think they smell their way through life," he said. This corroborates with other data showing bears that travel hundreds of miles to reach a berry patch.

20 years ago

Aug. 3, 1995

Rob Macal, an endurance runner from Whitefish completed 60 miles from West Glacier to Waterton, Alberta in 12 hours. He ran the ultra marathon via the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. It was not a typical endurance run, 37 miles of it on trails in the backcountry.

Columbia Falls started seeing more vehicle accidents on U.S. Highway 2. Officials blame carelessness and speed for the increased damage and injuries. For July, accidents jumped from two on the highway in 1994 to seven. Police said they would do more patrols along the highway in an attempt to slow traffic and curb the growing number of accidents.

30 years ago

Aug. 7, 1985

Bud McVay uncovered skeletal remains east of the Bad Rock Canyon Hotel in Columbia Heights. Investigations show that the bones are 300 years old, but it can't be determined which Native American tribe they belong to.

A message in a bottle was found and retrieved from the top of an unnamed mountain near Mount Cannon in the Park. The Park curator analyzed the screw-top bottle and said it was not produced until after 1920. The message was not faded, yet it was supposedly dated 1901.

40 years ago

Aug. 7, 1975

Three Park visitors, a family from Illinois, were attacked in the morning by a bear on the trail to Grinnell Glacier. The bear species was unknown at the time. Injuries were serious but not critical.

Two Vietnamese refugee families were brought from a California refugee camp by two local churches. The restaurant experience of the heads of the families were sought after for a Chinese restaurant in the Flathead Valley

50 years ago

Aug. 6, 1965

The District 6 School Board approved paying a company to install 28 lights around schools in the town. The objective was to reduce vandalism, which hit a record of $1,000 in damage that summer.

A trail from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide was proposed and President Johnson requests trails information from the National Park Service. A portion of the trail would run through Glacier Park.

60 years ago

Aug. 5, 1955

Rather than take a two-hour drive thru the Park, a woman from Spokane rode in on a donkey pulling a small covered wagon. She planned to leave the wagon behind and ride the donkey on the Park trails.