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We were very fortunate today to be boating on a SMOOTH St Mary Lake. This doesn't happen very often.
We got to ride in the older of the two boats at St Mary Lake: Little Chief was built by Captain Swanson in 1926 and has operated in Glacier National Park since that time. Much like her sister ship Sinopah, Little Chief is a 45-foot carvel planked launch with cedar on an oak frame and is authorized by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry 49 passengers with a current Certificate of Inspection.
Her original name was Rising Wolf, named after the massive mountain that flanks the entire north shore of Two Medicine Lake where she operated. The boat was rechristened Little Chief in 1976 after moving to St. Mary Lake where the mountain Little Chief is a prominent feature of the view. Little Chief received an extensive restoration in 1990 and has remained on St. Mary Lake since. In 2016, Little Chief became the first boat from the State of Montana to be added to the National Register of Historic Places!
We got to ride in the older of the two boats at St Mary Lake: Little Chief was built by Captain Swanson in 1926 and has operated in Glacier National Park since that time. Much like her sister ship Sinopah, Little Chief is a 45-foot carvel planked launch with cedar on an oak frame and is authorized by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry 49 passengers with a current Certificate of Inspection.
Her original name was Rising Wolf, named after the massive mountain that flanks the entire north shore of Two Medicine Lake where she operated. The boat was rechristened Little Chief in 1976 after moving to St. Mary Lake where the mountain Little Chief is a prominent feature of the view. Little Chief received an extensive restoration in 1990 and has remained on St. Mary Lake since. In 2016, Little Chief became the first boat from the State of Montana to be added to the National Register of Historic Places!