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Hi, this is Evan from Within Hiking Distance.
Today, I'm hiking to the Apgar Lookout Trail in Glacier National Park.
It's 7 miles round-trip and 1,850 feet of elevation gain.
The Apgar Lookout Trail is located just past the West Entrance of Glacier National Park.
The first road on the left will take you to the trailhead.
You'll pass a horse corral and drive another 1.9 miles on a dirt road
until you reach the parking lot.
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The Apgar lookout trail is rated as
strenuous because of the elevation gain.
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The trail is in bear country so don't forget your bear spray.
It's another warm day on the first week of June.
It's about 80 today.
Hard to believe.
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After talking to a park ranger and it sounds like there's a lot of
switchbacks and you don't get the best view until you get to the top of the lookout...
so we'll see.
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So the Apgar Lookout is all the way up there.
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About 3/4 of a mile in, the trail starts to ascend.
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Now that we're starting to go on these switchbacks, it's starting to become a lot less shaded up here.
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There are several long switchbacks as
the trail starts to go up the hill but the views get better and better.
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On my way up, I saw a meal deer just off the trial.
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When you get to the top of the hill you'll reach a ridge just before
reaching the Apgar lookout tower.
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I just made it to the Apgar Lookout Tower.
Pretty windy up here.
But let's take a look around.
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The Apgar Fire Lookout was constructed in 1929.
It is two stories high, but no longer in use.
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You can see Lake McDonald over there .
It looks like there's a trail off to the side where you can get a better view.
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So I just hiked to the top of the Apgar Lookout.
There's a great view of Lake McDonald.
I'm about to head back down now.
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