Kintla Valley: A Predators Shangri-La

Date(s): February 16-18, 2008 - Saturday-Monday
Start Time: 9:00 AM
End Time: 1:00 PM
Age: 18+
Meeting Place: Historic Mercantile in Polebridge, MT
Activity Level: Strenuous
Instructor(s): Kryan Krunkel, Ph.D.
Course Fee: $425 includes meals, lodging and waders
Credits: 30 OPI, 1 UM
Student Limit: 8

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Join us for a physically challenging and rewarding adventure into a hidden paradise, Glacier National Park’s Kintla Valley.  This wild and remote valley is the an ideal place for deer, elk, and moose to spend the winter. This course explores the primeval dance of life and death including hunting behavior and prey escape strategies.  Our nights will be spent at The Way Less Traveled Bed and Breakfast three miles from the Canadian border.  We will ford the North Fork River in waders and cross country ski to Kintla Lake (approximately two to twelve miles round trip with about 1,000 feet elevation gain) stopping often to look at tracks, scats and kill sites and watch (and listen) for any wildlife that may cross our paths.  Each day will involve excursions into predator habitat on skis.  Students must provide their own cross-country ski equipment.