Before Registering:

If your institution IS a member of NCHC:
Unless you hold a current NCHC Institutional or Professional membership, you must sign up as a "Contact" to be affiliated with your institution and receive member pricing for event registration. Sign up as a Contact Here (may take up to 48 hours for approval)

If your institution is NOT a member of NCHC:
Please proceed as a "Guest". Members receive a 50% discount on all NCHC event registrations - contact the NCHC Office for more details on joining!

Mandatory Documentation

When you register, you will be required to turn in 3 forms stating your acknowledgement of NCHC policies as a participant of Partners in the Parks. To save you some time while registering, we recommend downloading these files now, digitally or physically signing them, and have them ready to be uploaded with your application.

• NCHC Student Participant Conduct Agreement
• NCHC Accident Waiver
• NCHC Participant Health Insurance Information
• NCHC Intent to Pay (If you are not paying by credit card upon registration)

Glacier National Park is home to stunning alpine meadows, pristine waterways, peaks carved by glaciers, and dense forests in the northern Rockies.  It is situated on the continental divide and offers extensive experiences for students to learn about the environmental, ecological, and management challenges facing this unique national park.  

Participants of this Partners project engage in ecological service projects for the park--past years have included remote huckleberry research, loon and goat surveys, and invasive weed interventions.  Students will camp out under the stars, in either front or backcountry campsites, and spend days hiking rugged trails at elevations above the tree line.  This can be a physically challenging week.  Glacier-fed lakes are popular for swimming after a day out on the trail.  Due to the limited group size allowed in the wilderness areas of the park, enrollment numbers for this project are limited to 9 students.  Participants fly in and out of the small Glacier International Airport located in Kalispel, Montana.

Tentative Itinerary

• Sunday, August 6 
  Students arrive to Kalispell airport throughout afternoon/evening All Stay night at America’s Best Value Inn, Kalispell. 
  
  
• Monday, August 7 (Trip begins) 8:00am Travel to Park
  Meet with Volunteer staff (Sonja)? or Visitor Center? 
  Lunch around noon
  Group Campsite at Apgar
  Dinner
  Short hike north side of McDonald and Evening Reflection/Writing 
  
  
• Tuesday, August 8 
  Breakfast
  Citizen Science Training?
  Lunch
  Service Project (Invasive weeds, perhaps). Dinner
  Group Campsite at Apgar
  Evening Reflection/Writing 
  
  
• Wednesday, August 9 
  Breakfast
  Going to Sun Road (citizen science/goats/sheep?) Day Hike (citizen science/picas?)
  OR
  Begin Backpack trip in backcountry Citizen Science Evening Reflection/Writing 
  
  
• Thursday, August 10 
  Backcountry Citizen Science Evening Reflection Writing 
  
  
• Friday, August 11 
  Hike out of Backcountry
  Group Campsite (Apgar or other location dependent upon where we exit backcountry?) 
  Saturday, August 12 
  Leave for Kalispell/Airport around noon 
  
   
   

If you have any questions regarding your trip specifically, please contact your trip facilitators listed below. They will be sending you more information regarding what to pack, and any supplies you may need for your trip.

Trip Facilitators

Brian White, Graceland University

Refunds

All requests for refunds MUST be submitted in writing to the national office and RECEIVED no later than thirty days in advance of the trip departure date. Please send to nchc@unl.edu.

• Received prior to 30 days before trip departure:          Full refund, less a $50 per person administrative fee
• Received within 30 days before trip departure:            No refunds granted