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1 October 2013

Shutdown hits Glacier’s website, but workarounds may exist

Update, 1044 MDT. All NPS pages are on the server, but the NPS won’t let us visit them. Use Google cached pages (instructions below), and let the White House know this is mean-spirited and unnecessary.

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Logan Pass, Mt. Reynolds, and Mt. Jackson, from Mt. Gould. Larger image.

Jim Mann at the Daily InterLake reported this morning that not only is Glacier National Park not letting people in because of the shutdown, it’s trying to deny access to its website: “People visiting Glacier’s website will be redirected to a national website notifying them of a shutdown, and all of Glacier’s social media will be suspended.”

There are ways of getting around that redirect.

Unless the redirect is inserted into all of the pages of Glacier’s website, we may be able to visit the website by avoiding the home page. Enter this search term in Google:

site:nps.gov/glac/

That will bring up a list of pages at Glacier’s website. Try the links. Some may work. Moreover, most of the pages are cached by Google and thus beyond the government’s control. You can reach the cached page by clicking on the little inverted red triangle.

Google link example

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If you have time, please let me know whether you found a workaround that was successful.