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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.
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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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Sweeny Ridge to Peterson Lake, Florence MT

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:01:00 +0000

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

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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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Montana Elk

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:15:44 +0000

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

Lewis and Clark Caverns

admin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:03:59 +0000

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 about further developing the cavern for tours. Until 1908 the caverns were a successful tourist business, when the railroad laid claim to the land and gave it to the federal government and was consequently turned into a National Monument. In 1937 the state of Montana received its first state park as the federal government declared the Lewis and Clark Caverns a state park. Even though the name of the park is ‘Lewis and Clark Caverns’ it is believed that Lewis and Clark never visited the caverns, chances are they never knew they existed.

two shots while walking up the trail to the cavern;

The entrance to the caverns;

Glacier National Park – Avalanche Lake and McDonald Lake

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:10:52 +0000

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 hike along Avalanche Creek, a rough yet spectacular clear blue creek runs along an ‘easy’ hike up towards Avalanche Lake. The hike is approximately 2 miles each way and a gain of 500ft in elevation.

Along the hike many surrounding mountains still had snow which was melting and causing runoff resulting in huge falls, this is a small one;

Upon reaching the lake we found crystal clear water surrounded by mountains.

Later that day, a little lunch at McDonald Lake;

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

Yellowstone Park – Mammoth Hot Springs Terrace – Liberty Cap

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:21:41 +0000

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 worn during the French Revolution and that is how it got its name in 1871 from the Hayden Survey party.

Bitterroot River Rainbow Trout

admin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:31:34 +0000

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 packed with fishers, floaters, and people with their dogs. I don’t think any of us were too hopeful as it was getting late in the morning. When we got there there were few people there and the river looked still. We decided to walk north and I kept walking until I saw signs of life and after quite a ways up river I found it. They were jumping all over and it was hard for them to resist the worm.

We walked away with several rainbow trout.