Although the decision to issue a permit for the Army’s glacier training camp seemed imminent and Army engineers were prepared to start work on the access road in spring 1984, nothing happened.  It seems as if park officials were reluctant to engage, having calculated that the cons (largely tied to a fast-eroding budget for parks) outweighed the pros.[i]  A complicating factor was that by 1986 the glacier … Continue reading Charge of the Light Brigade: Part III – “Forward, the Light Brigade”