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Excellent signage along the Iceberg Lake trail
From St. Mary, Montana drive 9 miles north to Babb. Turn west onto Route 3 and follow it for 12 miles. The winding, narrow road is in bad shape with lots of broken pavement – though in 2020 it’s supposed to be getting a complete face-lift.
Look for the trailhead for Iceberg Lake hike behind the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn. It’s very well signed.
Map of the Iceberg Lake trail
Great views on the Iceberg Lake trail when you’re out of the trees
The first part of the hike is the steepest on the trail. Over just a quarter of a mile it climbs 200 feet. But for the rest of the hike it moderates and it’s not until you’re on the descent that you really notice how much you climbed. However, compared to most mountain hikes of this calibre, the elevation gain is modest.
At the first fork on the trail, bear left. In no time you’re into open terrain with beautiful mountain views. Continue for a total of 2.6 miles to reach Ptarmigan Falls, crossing numerous streams along the way. The only real wooded sections of the hike are immediately at the beginning of the hike and in the middle section before the falls.
Ptarmigan Falls is a nice place for a break. Hang out on the rocks, have a snack or soak your feet in the water on a hot summer’s day.
Look for a trail junction at Ptarmigan Falls. Stay left and head west to continue to Iceberg Lake. It’s another 2.3 miles to reach the lake and the views are terrific. You don’t see Iceberg Lake itself until the last minute as it sits tucked behind a knoll and beneath the cliffs of Iceberg Peak and Mt. Wilbur. Here’s a detailed map.
The trail ends at Iceberg Lake. In mid-September it didn’t have a single iceberg in it but if you visit earlier in the season, you can expect to see a lake with both icebergs and bergy bits.
The wind blew up on our arrival and the rain started so it got incredibly cold quickly – true hypothermia weather. We had a fast lunch huddled under some trees before starting our descent. On a nice day I could see hanging out by the lake for an hour or two. All told it took us about four hours round-trip to hike.
Don’t forget your 10 hiking essentials and bear spray. This is grizzly country you’re in – and so you do need to be very bear aware. We didn’t so much as see bear scat but you never know when a bear is going to pop onto the trail, especially in berry season.
View over Ptarmigan Falls
Ptarmigan Falls is a pretty area to have a break
Looking down the valley towards the Many Glacier area
Iceberg Lake trail with the lake hidden from view until the last minute of hiking
Spectacular Iceberg Lake – even on a foggy day
Mixed, moody weather on the hike out
Fall is a beautiful time to do the Iceberg Lake hike
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St. Mary is a 21 mile drive away via Babb and a great place to overnight with its location at the east entrance to the Going-to-the-Sun Road. I’d recommend a stay at the cute Tiny Homes in St. Mary Village.
The Tiny Home has everything you need for a very comfortable stay
For more information on Glacier National Park, visit their website.
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In our latest post in the ‘Meet the Winners’ series, we spoke to Ian Hutchinson, Health, Safety & Compliance Officer at Clarion Response who achieved a RoSPA Gold Medal Fleet Award in 2019. Read on to find out why year after year, Clarion continue to enter our prestigious awards….
What motivates you/your organisation to enter the RoSPA Fleet Safety Awards?
The RoSPA Fleet Safety Awards allows organisations to work towards a high standard for 
managing fleet safety. We use entering the Awards as an opportunity to not just review what we have done over the previous year, but also what initiatives we can introduce for the next year.
What benefits does winning a RoSPA Fleet Safety Award have for you/your organisation?
Our Awards are recognition that we are working to a high standard for managing fleet safety.
Which innovative approaches, risk assessment practices and/or control measures to manage occupational road risk are you particularly proud of from your most recent RoSPA Awards submission?
We regularly review risk assessments and guidance related to fleet safety, this follows a consultation with staff through the appropriate methods. By adopting this approach we are able to get buy-in from all staff.
Are you able to share any outcomes that have come from your organisation’s approach to the management of occupational road risk?
Since winning the award, we have provided new vans to a section of the business, which have been more practical for them when carrying out their daily jobs. The vans will also be provided to the remainder of the business on a phased approach. Vehicle accident rates have also been reduced.
How have the RoSPA Awards inspired you/your organisation to continually improve the management of occupational road risk?
Clarion Response have received the gold award for eight consecutive years so we are highly motivated to continue to improve and put in initiatives to ensure this achievement is maintained.
What advice would you give to a new entrant into the RoSPA Fleet Safety Awards about drafting their submission?
Firstly understand what is required, read through the guidance fully. Then look at the evidence that you have and decide what section each piece is best suited to. Ensure that the evidence you are submitting is mentioned in the submission and also where you have discussed something try to link a piece of evidence to that bit of information.
Does your organisation have employees who drive for work? Don’t miss the chance to show your commitment and achievements in safety. Click here to find out more about RoSPA Fleet Safety Awards, and how you can get involved. With free mentoring to help entrants maximise their entry, and a host of Awards Excellence Events and free to enter awards, there couldn’t be a better time to join the RoSPA Awards Community.
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Summer in Australia means a lot of time traveling in a car, often to the extent of completing an abridged audiobook and/or several podcasts. One episode of BBC’s The World This Week caught my ear, not because it is titled “Australia Burning” but for the opinion piece by Martin Bashir (17 minute mark). Bashir discusses mid-life crises, risk aversion and neuroplasticity. I look at the relevance to occupational health and safety.
Bashir spoke about the importance of challenging oneself, especially at “an age of comfort” (my term) an achievement. This may not seem related to OHS, the raison d’être of this blog, but the age of comfort can be defined as an age of safety or risk aversion, or as Bashir says “a mechanism for self-protection”, and this period in our lives may bleed into the way we see the world, the type of OHS advice we may provide our clients and, perhaps, the way that our OHS legislation is constructed.
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A shoplifter was killed after reversing into a pursuing officer. The officer open fired in defense. We have had an officer involved shooting at the Chesterfield Outlet Mall on North outer 40 rd. Please avoid the area. All media please respond to the far west end of the parking lot — Chesterfield Police (@ChesterfieldPD) December […]
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Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt and Underwear
In summer 2019 I received the Falke Silk-Wool underwear and t-shirt from the iconic German brand upon request. As I had been previously impressed by the durability of the Klattermusen Eir t-shirt, I was really keen to test other base layers made out of Merino wool and silk, which is a much less utilized material for activewear although it has many interesting qualities when worn next to the skin. Luckily, Falke agreed to send both me and my boyfriend items from the brand’s functional sports underwear segment (my boyfriend reviewed the Cool t-shirt here) and we have been using them ever since. Here is what I learned about the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt:
The Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt is made of a luxuriously soft mix of 70% Merino wool and 30% silk. These natural fibers help to maintain the body’s ideal temperature in both warm and cold weather as silk has a cooling effect while Merino wool keeps you comfortably warm. As mentioned in the review of the Falke Silk-Wool underwear, the feel of the blend is quite different than that of the Klattermusen Eir t-shirt although the shirts have the same wool to silk ratio (70-30). The Silk-Wool fabric is softer, lighter and more porous. When first wearing the Falke t-shirt I noticed right away how incredibly light it was.
I got curious and weighed it to be 85 g (size L), and then weighed the Klattermusen shirt which turned out to weigh 105 g (size M). As the two shirts are made of approximately the same amount of fabric (±5%), I could infer that the fabric of the Falke shirt has to be quite a lot lighter than Klattermusen’s 140 g/m2 density. Upon inquiry, Falke informed me that the Silk-Wool fabric only weighs an astonishingly meagre 105 grams per square meter! It is thus 25% lighter than the silk and wool blend used for the Klattermusen t-shirt. In comparison, the densities of the fabrics made by the big Merino brands Icebreaker and SmartWool are quite a lot heavier. SmartWool’s lightest blend for t-shirts is 150 g/m2 (87% Merino, 13% nylon) – just like Icebreaker’s most used blend for its Anatomica, Body Fitzone, Siren and Tabi shirts (83% Merino, 17% Nylon/Lycra). If we are talking 100% Merino, Icebreaker’s Everyday line utilizes a fabric with a density of 175 g/m2 while the material of the Formal Friday t-shirt reviewed earlier this year weighs 156 g/m2.
The Falke Silk-Wool is thus an incredibly light natural fabric. But as with the Falke underwear, also the t-shirt suffers from piling – already after very few washes (following the instructions). Piling is when fibers tend to come loose from the fabric surface and form balled particles of fiber. Some people (like my significant other) don’t mind piling, but I can’t stand it. To mitigate the problem, I will thus have to wash the t-shirt extremely gently by hand, and occasionally use my electric pill shaver – with caution as the fabric is so incredibly thin and light. But the feel of the fabric is so luxuriously soft that it seems like a price worth paying. I should mention, though, that the porosity of the material means that the t-shirt is slightly see-through, but not terribly so. It should, however, be even less of a problem if you purchase it in one of the other colors available – near-black anthracite grey or dark blue.
In terms of sustainability, the Merino wool used is mulesing-free, while the silk is more sustainably produced than conventional silk as Falke reports that “it is made out of silk cocoons that were already used for other purposes. Normally, the cocoons are thrown away after the first working process, but we are using the silk rests to spin new yarn”. Falke produces most of its garments in Germany, and the rest on other production sites in Europe so also the labor force has proper working conditions.
As I was almost 7 months pregnant when I received the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt, I asked for size L – which also fits me after having given birth. It is only slightly larger than the size M of the Klattermusen Eir t-shirt, so I would say that Falke’s sizing might be a bit on the narrow side. On the other hand, it is relatively long in the torso which is part of the explanation why it fitted me so well late in the pregnancy. Falke also offers other base layer tops in the Silk-Wool line; a long-sleeved Henley shirt and a camisole with elegant double shoulder straps. I was very happy with the t-shirt, though, as I often got inexplicably hot from the waist up towards the end of my pregnancy. The temperature-regulating properties of the fabric were thus nothing short of lifesaving since my shoulders and the baby bump was kept warm while my curiously boiling chest, arms and décolleté could cool down a bit.
I actually ended up basically living in the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt and the long-sleeved Isobaa base layer in the last months of the pregnancy because they were among the very few cool and comfortable tops to fit me without making me feel like a Beluga whale. Thus, the anti-microbial properties of both shirts were greatly appreciated as I would wear them day in and day out. The odor-reducing performance was especially put to the test in the Dolomites when I wore the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt on consecutive hikes where it got soaked with sweat. Other functional details of the t-shirt are the smooth flatlock seams, raglan sleeves and the printed logos. The washing instructions are printed on a small white tag as well as in multiple languages on longer black tags which should be cut off with a scissor. Otherwise, the latter may chafe your skin.
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt Front
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt laid out flat
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt: Fabric
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt: Off-set shoulder seams
Falke Silk T-shirt: Logo at the hip
Falke Silk T-shirt: Wool washing instructions
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt and Underwear
The washing instructions tell you to wash the Falke shirt on an extra gentle wool cycle at the cold setting (30 C⁰ or less), but to mitigate the issue of piling I would definitely recommend washing it gently by hand in cool water. Piling will also be increased heavily by tumble-drying, which the instructions thus warn against. Drying should, however, not be a problem as the Silk-Wool fabric is so thin and delicate, but it will of course take longer to dry after handwashing than machine-washing since you shouldn’t wring the garment forcefully of water. Whether washing by hand or machine, you should use a wool detergent, and steer clear of bleach and fabric softeners which may interfere with the naturally anti-microbial properties of the Silk-Wool fabric.
Piling aside, I really love the Falke t-shirt. Not only is it functional due to the soft, antimicrobial and temperature-regulating fabric, but it is also cut so elegantly that I don’t hesitate to wear it for everyday life in addition to hiking and other outdoor activities. Due to the hassle of handwashing it, I will wear it a bit less frequently the next months, while my baby still regurgitates in all directions, but I will for sure throw it on for every hike due to its exceptional performance.
If you have any questions about this product, drop me a line in the comments below.
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