Gable Pass to Chief Mountain

Chief Mountain 9,080


Chief Mountain, from the prairies	Monstrous south face of Mt. Cleveland, highest in park	Looking west towards Gable Pass along Lee Ridge	East, where the mountains meet the prairies


Chief Mountain with Ninaki and Papoose in front	Looking North	The great scree field, west face of Chief	Slide Lake, formed when Yellow Mountain collapsed clogging Otatso Creek

View towards St. Mary Valley

North from Summit

Down the great east flank of Chief

Spectacular view of the Prairies


Mountains meet the Prairies	Lunch with a view	Papoose in foreground, looking towards Gable Pass	Last Glimpse of Cleveland, long hike back in the dark


Mini Panorama taken during descent of the great Scree Field	Panorama Looking South East	Panorama looking north from Gable Pass

Trail Stats

Climbs 3,800'

Description

Chief Mountain, the most Sacred Mountain to the Native Blackfeet People. It is said when one dies their soul ascends this mountain to get to the Heavens. Spectacular Mountain, stands all alone at the Edge of the Prairies. It's a very remote area of the park, we saw no other soul that hole day in the Mountains. Our route was we took Chief Highway that runs north to Canada, we had trouble finding the trailhead it's barely marked with an orange piece of plastic. We hiked to Gable Pass and left the trail towards Chief. There's a Great Scree Field on it's western flanks and that is how we ascended.