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News and Adventure from Glacier National Park The following is an adaptation from Ramble On: A History of Hiking. On this date in 1903, John Muir commenced a historic three-night camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt in Yosemite. Most historians now regard this as the most important camping trip ever….

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