Map of East Trail system, complements of Mike Keller. The GVM Ecology Team has developed, created, and maintained a system of hiking trails for several decades now, beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Howard and Mary Alice Evans first marked off Crellin Trail with signs showing interesting natural features, and an entire network …
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Glacier Gals Highway Cleanup
L to R, Mibby Lewis, Doug Els, Mary B, Leanne Els, Ted Sammond, Linda Petrie, Beth Sammond, Jim Lyne, Jim Petrie It’s a monthly event in the summer. Glacier Gals organize a crew to sweep the roadside along the buck-and-rail fencing that marks our neighborhood from Highway 74E, picking up the accumulated trash from wind …
Quietly, in the background.
Living in our mountain community it’s easy for us to be absorbed by the beauty and the wildlife, the weather, the busyness of keeping up with daily chores and maintenance. Most of us have crafts, hobbies, projects we love working on. Many have families and neighbors we love to spend time with. Folks who crave …
Spring Snow.
24 hours later, after two passes of the plow. Ok, it’s almost 4am, but I think we’ve managed to keep the main roads open. It’s not all good news though. The courts will definitely all require digging out by heavy machines. This will be slow going. It could be Sunday, possibly even Monday before we …
Glacier Gals.
As I work my way through the details of creating a new website, I learn more and more about all that happens in our mountain world. We don’t often stop to think about all the activities Glacier Gals make possible in our community life. Social opportunities Monthly Potluck Dinners, bringing us together regularly to share …
Mitigation at work.
Walking the pups today on Haystack Drive, near the Iron Mountain Trailhead, I noticed some fresh piles of tree cuttings alongside the road. Looking closer, I noticed they’d just been cut from the ponderosa trees that crowd the right-of-way. “The FACA Team has been here,” I thought. Well, I was partly correct. Henry Hudson coordinated …
Board of Directors February 21, 2024.
Highlights of the meeting: As I begin this regular monthly summary of what your Board of Directors is working on, I wonder what would I have liked to have known about life in Glacier View Meadows when I first moved here in 2017. The full Minutes of the Board Meeting are available, so I don’t …
New Website for GVM.
In our Annual Meeting last summer, we approved a major update and improvement in the way we manage ourselves as a community. Since our founding in the 1970s, we’ve operated under two separate associations–Road & Recreation, and Water & Sewer. In a long overdue step, in an effort to simplify our lives and our ways …