Glacier's Highline Trail closed after bear injures hiker Thursday

Officials in Glacier National Park closed a portion of the Highline Trail on Thursday after a bear injured a hiker early that morning. According to an announcement from Gina Icenoggle, the park's public information officer, the famed trail is closed from Granite Park Chalet on the north to Haystack Butte on the south — about a 4.9-mile stretch that also provides access to the Grinnell Glacier Overlook out-and-back trail.

The trail and bear encounter location are located up the mountain and approximately northeast of the upper switchback (above "The Loop") on the west side of Going-to-the-Sun Road. Icenoggle wrote that a bear inflicted "non-life-threatening injuries" on 35-year-old man hiking the Highline Trail. The man was among a group of hikers who encountered the bear near Grinnell Glacier Overlook trailhead on the Highline Trail, which is about 0.



7 miles southeast on the trail from Granite Park Chalet and sits at about 6,590 feet elevation. ".