Waterton Townsite to Fifty Mountain 19 mi :: 1304 mi :: Sunny, warm I pack for a five day trip through Glacier National Park. It’s too problematic and expensive to meet Ann along the way. We’re both unhappy about it. After a good breakfast I get on the trail. It travels for several miles along…

Lewis & Clark NF to Waterton Townsite, Canada 0 mi :: 1285 mi :: Sunny, warm The tent is soaked with dew this morning, which sets us looking for a sunny place to make breakfast. We find it at a rest stop near Great Falls, but of course forget to dry the tent. I get…

Shirley Basin, WY to Lewis & Clark NF, MT 0 mi :: 1285 mi :: Overcast, rainy It’s raining when we wake up. It lightens up while we break camp, but it seems like we’re in for a wet day. We decide to try to find breakfast in Casper. We drive in a big spiral…

Pipeline Trailhead to Battle Pass 17 mi :: 1285 mi :: Warm, partly cloudy The divide here continues to be really pleasant ridge walking among sparse trees and boulders. I enter the Huston Park Wilderness, where the trail tread ends and posts and cairns begin. It’s a well-marked trail, but retains the feel of a…

South Fork Soda Creek to Slavonia 22 mi :: 1268 mi :: Warm, heavy afternoon rain The mosquitos are waiting for me in the morning. I get going quickly, hoping I can find places with fewer mosquitos to eat my meals today. I stop at a snowfield for water and notice there aren’t many bugs.…

Rabbit Ears Pass to South Fork Soda Creek 18 mi :: 1246 mi :: Partly cloudy Dad takes us to a good breakfast in Steamboat. Afterward I say farewell to Mom, who thinks she’ll head back East tomorrow. A few last bites of birthday cake and I throw the pack in Dad’s truck, since he…

Steamboat Springs 0 mi :: 1228 mi :: Partly cloudy, warm We decide to celebrate my birthday a day early. Mosty it involves laziness and hanging out with my family. My dad and Sarah show up around lunch. We snack at the picnic table, then lounge at the pool. I whoop my Mom in a…

Steamboat Springs 0 mi :: 1228 mi :: Partly cloudy, warm A classic rest day, it begins with pancakes sticking to the pan on the camp stove and ends with good beer, wine, and conversation around the picnic table. In the evening my Mom and I see Farenheit 9/11. I’ll probably review it separately later.…

FS104 to Rabbit Ears Pass 25 mi :: 1228 mi :: :: Warm, humid, cloudy I’ll be on roads all day today, so once I get started I concentrate on making miles. My road stays on the divide for awhile, then descends north at Chimney Rock to avoid private property. I encounter six large elk…

Willow Creek Pass to FS104 23 mi :: 1203 mi :: :: Sunny, afternoon rain storms Ann gets me back to the pass at 8 am, after coffee. There is no obvious trail headed west, so I bushwhack up the ridge until I find one. It leads into a little web of trails and old…