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Montana Hiker Completes Nearly Ten Year Quest To Jump Into 168 Lakes
OUTDIP – Montana hiker Marc Ankenbauer, 37, plans on ending a 10-year quest today by plunging into Fishercap Lake in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park.
The swim will cap the goal he set as a seasonal park employee to jump into each of the 132 named lakes in the park, as well as the 38 in adjoining Waterton Lakes National Park.
Subtracting for the two lakes that straddle the border into both parks, Fishercap will likely be etched in his memory as Lake 168.
The goal “seemed unapproachable enough that it would be an epic life adventure yet doable enough that I might be able to do it,” he told the Great Falls Tribune, calling it “a normal guy’s crazy adventure.”
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/sep/08/hiker-bags-em-all-168-glacier-lakes/
The swim will cap the goal he set as a seasonal park employee to jump into each of the 132 named lakes in the park, as well as the 38 in adjoining Waterton Lakes National Park.
Subtracting for the two lakes that straddle the border into both parks, Fishercap will likely be etched in his memory as Lake 168.
The goal “seemed unapproachable enough that it would be an epic life adventure yet doable enough that I might be able to do it,” he told the Great Falls Tribune, calling it “a normal guy’s crazy adventure.”
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/sep/08/hiker-bags-em-all-168-glacier-lakes/
