Backpacking in Glacier National Park: The Highline Trail

This is a montage of short 30 second (give or take) clips I took at various points along the Highline Trail during a recent backpacking trip to Glacier National Park in July of 2009. This is one of the more well known trails in the park and my second favorite to Swiftcurrent Pass. Notice the first 1/4 mile is roughly 3 feet wide with a 200 foot drop off the side. Thankfully there is a guidewire bolted into the wall.

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[HUGHS5001]

@HUGHS5001 FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT Almost everyone has at least one doctor. This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun owner! Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand! Statistic posts source; Saiga Power

[HUGHS5001]

@HUGHS5001 Now think about this:

Guns

A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is.000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI So, statistically speaking, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'

[HUGHS5001]

Doctors are more dangerous than guns

A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.

C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.

[HUGHS5001]

Great video by the way. I love that hike

[HUGHS5001]

More worried about a gun than a bear? Obviously the guy who said that hasn't experienced guns like us native Montanans. I grew up in Columbia Falls and have hiked here my whole life with a gun, does that make me a criminal? I'll bet he would appreciate an experienced marksman if he found himself in a pinch with a wild predator. Most who grew up here are very good with guns, I've never seen anyone get shot. Anti-gun groups create a fear of guns. I wonder if he's deathly afraid of other tools?

[JusAnotherUTuber]

wow

[cbjb2]

what was the animal on the trail?

[hadd13]

awesome great video looks like a great time