Heart Lake Trail number 171 is reported to be an easy but long hike to the largest lake on the district located in an area proposed as a part of the Great Burn Wilderness. Heart Lake is in the Lolo National Forest and the largest alpine lake in the western Montana portion of the Bitterroot [...]
The Motorola Droid doesn’t take the best pictures but its sync ability between picasa and ‘my tracks’ makes things fairly easy. Currently the steps required are to sync the pics from my phone to the picasa web album, download the picasa map for google earth then import this file into a new map within Google [...]
start: 7/17/2010 length: 4.5 miles (one way [in]) time: 4:46 mins (one way [in]) difficulty: strenuous avg speed: .9 mph elevation gain: from 5669ft to a max of 7426ft down to 6541ft comments: stats including packing approximately 50lbs View Sweeny Ridge to Peterson Lake, Florence MT in a larger map
start: 7/2/2010 length: 1,1 miles (one way [out]) time: 34 mins (one way [out]) difficulty: easy avg speed: 2.0 mph elevation gain: from 5042ft to 5524ft gaining 482ft comments: easy hike, good views of Blodgett Canyon View Blodgett Overlook Hamilton MT in a larger map
Picture of elk on the property behind us, taken through the telescope.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
My previous trip to Glacier didnt go past Avalanche Campground, this time we stayed for 3 days. Outstanding views in this park note; two panoramic pics are included with the photos / maps. These photos are too small in flickr and are misplaced on all maps, they should be located more towards the north east [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
start: 7/11/2008 length: 5.3 miles (round trip) time: 3:09 (round trip) difficulty: easy avg speed: 2.0 mph elevation gain: from 3805ft to 5240ft gaining 1435ft comments: easy hike, drank from stream. photos; flickr google maps (with photos) google earth (.kmz file with photos) gps (.gpx file)
start: 7/13/2008 at 1208am(?) length: 3.7 miles (from trail head to fire lookout) time: 3:34:24 (up) 1:10:38 (at the top) 1:43:33 (back) difficulty: moderate / moderately difficult avg speed: 1.o mph (up) 2.0 mph (down) elevation gain: from 6783ft to 9368ft gaining 3585ft directions: south of Stevensville to (either west on St Mary’s Rd or [...]
While the entrance to the caverns were discovered in 1882 by two Whitehall men; Charles Brooke and Mexican John, the the Lewis and Clark caverns were discovered in 1892 by Tom Williams and Burt Pannell, two hunters. Tom Williams explored the caves 6 years later and then talked to a local investor named Dan Morrison [...]
Our visit to Glacier National Park took us 16 miles in the West Glacier entrance to Avalanche Campground. With 50 camp sites the campground is definitely on the edge of the wild. While there were no signs of bears the deer had no problem with the campers. After camping at Avalanche Campground, we took a [...]