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Heart Lake, Lolo National Forest, Superior MT

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:16:06 +0000

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 Mountains.

The lake is listed anywhere between 1.3 and 3 miles, unfortunately I could not get a GPS signal with the Motorola Droid and it was difficult to get a signal with the Garmin GPS as well. I did get some pictures tho.

Glacier Park Part 2 using the Motorola Droid, Google Maps, and Picasa

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:40:40 +0000

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 Maps ‘My Maps’. Then I upload my tracks to the new map. This provides me with my tracks and geotagged pictures all within google maps, make sense? Got an easier way? I like the simplicity and clean look with the seperate slide show and gps track of the previous posts but then again i like the pictures placed on the map where they were taken as I attempted in this post.
testing testing

This trip involved a stay at Lake Five Resort just south of the West Glacier Entrance. Tracks show the first days trip from Lake Five Resort through West Glacier, into Apgar Village, then on to St. Marys and back to Lake Five. Tracks also show the second days trip from Lake Five Resort, to St Marys, then on to Many Glacier and back.

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Blodgett Overlook, Hamilton MT

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:43:33 +0000

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

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St Mary’s Peak, Stevensville MT

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:57:47 +0000

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 west on Indian Prairie Loop then North on St Mary’s Rd) then west on Lookout Trail

comments: this had me gasping a bit, stops became more frequent as the trail went on, the last leg of the hike seems to be a bit more strenuous than the rest of the trail.

photos; panoramio or flickr

google maps

google earth (.kmz file)

gps (.gpx file)

Lost Trail Powder Mountain

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:40:29 +0000

From the lost trail website: The beauty and uncrowded slopes of the Rocky Mountain’s hidden jewel.

… family skiing from the top of the Continental Divide.

… unbelievable powder …

… an excellent family facility that has been helping folks enjoy themselves for over 60 years

Here lies Ralph Huckaba

admin — Thu, 31 May 2007 04:01:26 +0000

He has some of the best seats in the house.
Some more views from the Bull Mountains here.

Whitehall, Montana

admin — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:51:19 +0000

Views from our location in Whitehall, Montana. Click for larger view.

Bull Mountains;

Tobacco Root Mountains;

Highland Mountains;