Glacier Mountaineering Society

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01/06/2024

Our friends at Blacktail haven’t been able to open (yet!) due to lack of snow. Snow dances & prayers are out in full force and this can change at any minute but in the meantime & in an effort to support our friends, we’re offering free lift tickets to anyone with a current Blacktail season pass until Blacktail opens.

We’ll also extend our 15% season pass holder discount for lodging at The Edith Hotel in White Sulphur Springs. Call 406-547-8888 to book.

Keep the stoke alive!

Stop at Shedquaters for your lift ticket & we’ll SKI you on the slopes.

We love you, Blacktail! ❤️

04/02/2023

With all the loss in the mountaineering community in the past year, this is well worth a look. See https://www.glaciermountaineers.com/2023/03/28/trauma-loss-in-the-mountains/ for more details.

06/12/2022

GMS member Melissa Magnuson-Cannady shares her advice about managing Type 1 diabetes in the high country of Glacier National Park. Read her story at http://glaciermountaineers.com/articles/HikingwithNeedles/HikingwithNeedles.html

05/01/2022

The 2022 journal is out and in the mail to members! Renew or sign up now to get your copy with stories including Brenda and Laurel's Excellent Adventure, Getting to and beneath Going-to-the-Sun, Climbing Devils Tower, and Hiking with Needles. Also, Sign Up Day is Monday May 9, for signing up for GMS Week events and climbs for the first part of the summer. http://www.glaciermountaineers.com/gms-join.html

09/03/2021

As we approach Labor Day, consider joining GMS as a member and coming up with us on outings like the Floral Park trip we did last Saturday. GMS members check the calendar at http://www.glaciermountaineers.com/index.asp for upcoming trips. Non-members can join now at http://www.glaciermountaineers.com/gms-join.html for only $30 and membership is good until April 2023.

04/01/2021

Hoping to climb or hike in Glacier this summer along the Going to the Sun Road? Plan ahead, as Glacier is implementing ticketed entry (a $2 entry ticket on top of a pass will be needed).

Glacier National Park officials on Wednesday unveiled a temporary ticketed entry system for motorists entering the Going-to-the-Sun Road corridor this summer, adopting the strategy in an effort to help manage congestion and avoid the need for closures as a confluence of challenges related to ongoing...

05/11/2020

Glacier and Waterton may be closed, but GMS signup night is still on for tonight at 7pm Mountain time. We have events outside the park or will reschedule as needed, but signup for the first session of summer climbs starts tonight. Make sure you have renewed your membership before then. In the interests of GMS member safety, see also the new guidelines for events during Phase 1 and 2 of the reopening of Montana at http://www.glaciermountaineers.com/gms-covid.html

04/25/2020

The latest issue of Going to the Sun: Journal of the Glacier Mountaineering Society is hot off the press. Be sure you have renewed your membership to receive it! (Also, if your mailing address changed recently be sure to update it online and email [email protected] before Monday so that it can be sent to the correct address.)

01/21/2020

GMS Winter Potluck is coming up this Saturday, Jan. 25 at 5PM. All GMS members, families, and friends are welcome to join the festivities. Come hear about Brenda and Bruce and their trip living hut to hut, climbing peaks in the Dolomites, and exploring via ferrata tracks. Register at http://www.glaciermountaineers.com/events/details.asp?eventid=2149

Good food, great door prizes, and a chance to discuss past and future climbs. We also have three silent auctions for some fabulous prints that would look great on your wall. Check out the framed print of the GMS-commissioned painting of Dr. J. Gordon Edwards on top of Siyeh; a lovely, large print of Wild Goose Island by photographer Pam Voth; and GMS member Seth Anderson's sow with a cub grizzly at St. Mary Lake. Bid online before the potluck or at the dinner.

See the Voth print and submit a bid at https://forms.gle/MZKKPsnWpyKNUj7Y7

See the framed Edwards print and submit a bid at https://forms.gle/ZeruQHCc3RHbuZRL6

And check out the new silent auction for Seth's print at https://forms.gle/dZDS5tQWkfV4tCfA7