Go Explore Glacier

Many people think that off-trail travel in Glacier is prohibited or not allowed. We are happy to tell you that they are wrong! The only places you can’t travel off trail are those that have area closures* and seasonal closures and we have those all designated in our guidebooks!

We enjoy off-trail travel in Glacier National Park and there is plenty of off-trail goodness for all levels of ability from beginner to advanced. Glacier has options for just the amount of challenge you want for an epic day.

Climb Glacier National Park is an illustrated guidebook for off-trail travel in Glacier National Park. We are passionate about climbing in the park and every peak featured in our books have been climbed by the authors so we can give the most accurate description of the climbs.

* Since Volume 4 was published the NPS has added seasonal closures for access to Mount Henkel and Altyn Peak. Make sure you check on those closures before starting your climb!

This information can be found in the GUIDEBOOK SERIES on this page.

This is our story.

Climb Glacier National Park is the result of getting off-route in Glacier National Park. After a few years of climbing and using the written route from the existing guidebook to reach summits we identified a need come out with a book that had updated routes for the popular climbs in Glacier.

This all happened in 2003 while climbing Clements Mountain near Logan Pass. Two climbing partners got off route and got into some class IV terrain that was totally unnecessary and potentially dangerous. We got lucky and found the goat trail on the Bird Woman Valley side of Clements Mountain.

After completing that route we agreed that a photo with the route drawn on it would make it easier to find the safest routes to the summit. For a few years we passed these photos around to our friends and they really helped.

While hiking one of Outside Magazine’s 10 most dangerous hikes in the United States, the Huckleberry Lookout Trail, Blake shared the idea about an actual guidebook with red-lines with his friend, John VanArendonk. He said to go for it and agreed to help research routes as well as contribute to the process.

Ten years later and after many trips to summits in Glacier the team completed the guidebook series with illustrated routes to 99 individual summits in Glacier National Park.

That’s how it happened! Now the “Passmore Guide” is the “go-to” guidebook for climbing in Glacier National Park and is your passport to adventure!