. A guide to the national parks of America. e, guides and camp out-fits. 84 THE NATIONAL PARKS OF AMERICA Guides, saddle, and pack horses can be se-cured, or released, at Glacier Park Station,Many Glacier Hotel, Going-to-the-Sun Cha-lets, Glacier Hotel on Lake McDonald, fornon-scheduled, indefinite trips, at the followingrates; Rates for guides and horses. Guides, including horse and board, per $ and pack horses, per day Park rules require 1 guide for every 10 per-sons or fraction of 10. Pack horses are not-needed for short one-day trips, but are neces-sary for long trips
. A guide to the national parks of America. e, guides and camp out-fits. 84 THE NATIONAL PARKS OF AMERICA Guides, saddle, and pack horses can be se-cured, or released, at Glacier Park Station,Many Glacier Hotel, Going-to-the-Sun Cha-lets, Glacier Hotel on Lake McDonald, fornon-scheduled, indefinite trips, at the followingrates; Rates for guides and horses. Guides, including horse and board, per $ and pack horses, per day Park rules require 1 guide for every 10 per-sons or fraction of 10. Pack horses are not-needed for short one-day trips, but are neces-sary for long trips of several days. One packhorse will carry the dunnage of 10 people. All saddle horses are required to be equippedwith waterproof slickers, which outfitters sup-ply free. The guides in charge of a party shall at alltimes precede the party and the assisting guidesshall follow the party. It shall be the duty of the assisting guide tohandle the pack horses, to prevent their crowd-ing each other or the horses of the tourists onmountain GLACIER NATIONAL PARK 85 A complete horseback tour of Glacier Na-tional Park from Glacier Park Hotel, visitingall chalet groups, with several side trips toprincipal points of interest, such as IcebergLake, Cracker Lake, Sperry Glacier, etc., canbe made in from 10 to 14 days. Tourists us-ing such horseback tours can travel at theirown convenience without the necessity of fol-lowing a fixed schedule. What to See Probably the best way to see Glacier Parkwith moderate thoroughness is by taking ahorseback tour. One cannot penetrate veryfar into the interior in any other way, but thisis not to say that those who have to do theirtraveling in the Park by automobile miss themajority of its splendid attractions. If you leave the train at Belton, you willfeel as though you had stepped out on the edgeof Switzerland. A stones throw from thechalet, across the emerald green FlatheadRiver, is the Park. The mountains are notprecipitous here, but there is pro
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