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Heart Lake, Lolo National Forest, Superior MT

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Sweeny Ridge to Peterson Lake, Florence MT

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

Blodgett Overlook, Hamilton MT

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

Montana Elk

Picture of elk on the property behind us, taken through the telescope.

Lewis and Clark Caverns

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 [...]

Glacier National Park – Avalanche Lake and McDonald Lake

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 [...]

Lost Trail Powder Mountain

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  

Yellowstone Park – Mammoth Hot Springs Terrace – Liberty Cap

Liberty Cap is a [now inactive] 37-foot hot spring cone located at the bottom of Lower Terraces, in the northern portion of Mammoth Hot Springs. Liberty Cap was created by a hot spring which remained in one location for a long time, depositing minerals which built the cone. Liberty Cap was thought to resemble caps [...]

Bitterroot River Rainbow Trout

We got a late start today and then I drove us all around looking for a small, out of the way fishing spot on the Bitterroot River but we never found it. We decided to go back to the public fishing access at the Florence Bridge which is close to our house but its usually [...]