Inaccessible concerns four backcountry trips in 47 days in the attempt to access an area of Glacier National Park called Hole in the Wall. The keystone for completing the three-winter trip from Yellowstone National Park to the Canadian border was accessing this high elevation cirque at the end of Bowman Canyon, three and one half miles short of the Canadian border.
As it turns out, the park personnel concerning the inaccessibility of Hole in the Wall was nearly accurate. There were worse things to face on the one-mile eastern approach than the snowpack shaking avalanches a mere several feet away with trees, roots, boulders, ice, snow, mud, raging water and a roaring assurance that a man and his equipment could disappear forever. Falling and lying upside down on near cliff angles with and without being connected to the rope, with and without carrying the heavy 75-pound load, were far more effective eye-openers.
Worst of all was the realization that in 2016 the six days of horror in entering Hole in the Wall was going to happen again.
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