Leader: Corey Hinshaw Participants: Forest Dean, Stefan Kolis, Anne Dellwo, Kevin Ewing This peak had been on my list for awhile. We planned to try the East approach and camp at Cliff lake. Past Heart lake, we tried to stay as high on the ridge as we could to avoid the bushwhack. It did make …
The first of July found six eager climbers in the Bitterroot Mountains just west of Hamilton on Canyon Creek. Our objective was North Canyon (9042) and Sheer Point (8976). On the trek were Lou Herritt, Sam Jacobs, Larry Hiller, Dori Gilels with Gail and Dell Meuchel. The day promised to be quite hot but, as …
Date: April 29-30, 2023 Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Elizabeth Moore, Sarah Kilbourne This 8522’ peak, with its seldom glimpsed striking west couloir, is perhaps the most remote of the8500’+ summits in the Missions. The closest trail leads to Terrace Lake but then from there still requiresan 1100’ scramble up and over a col to just …
Date: April 16, 2023 Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Elizabeth Moore, Leland Earls, Ryan Gregson I’ve been up the standard southeast ridge on East St. Mary’s Peak many times via its good, but very steep trail. Each time I have looked west at the ridge paralleling the SE Ridge and wondered about it. In March of …
East Saint Mary’s Peak (Mission Mtns) April 16, 2023 Read More »
Participants: Steve Schombel, Vick Applegate, David & Julie KahlI thought I had the Lubrecht Trail system figured out, but alas, after leaving from the ski parking trail head, we once again ended up on the wrong trail, which we discovered when we arrived at a familiar trail junction. We started to take trails to the …
Lost Again in Lubrecht-ville Sun. April 16th, 2023 Read More »
We had a very pleasant hike with Dave and Julie, two old friends, and Vic A., who joins us sometimes. It was a beautiful Bluebird, blue sky day, with mild temperatures. The hike went off pretty much as planned in the proposed hike notice, except that when we reached the Larry Creek loop road we …
Marshall Canyon, Sun. Mar 19th, 2023Participants: Steve Schombel, David and Julie KahlThis was neither an epic or even strenuous snow hike, exploring what the GPS labeled as “Woods Road,” going from the head of the Rattlesnake’s Wood Gulch, down across the north face of Mt. Jumbo, but it was a glorious spring day, sunny with …
Participants: Michael Young, David & Julie Kahl I have been leading this trip, almost every year, for over 20 years and this was the nicest conditions of any trip. Trips have ranged from breaking trail almost the entire way, in several feet of new snow -with help from the Bitterroot Ski Club, to walking out …
Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Elizabeth Moore, Chris Soriano, Scott Williams, Joe Wagner, Mark Albrecht, Ashley Prunier, Tim Ward, Sean Colvin, Luke Jacobson We gathered our large group in the Lolo Hot Springs parking lot at 8:30am. Club member Andrew Twardowski had arrived earlier and buried a couple of beacons in the snow and allowed us …
Crystal Amphitheater Ski Tour (Winterfest) January 7, 2023 Read More »
Participants: Steve Schombel, David and Julie Kahl It was snowing all day at Lolo Pass, we met at 9:30 to try and get up there before the parking got filled up, but there was plenty of parking. We got our season parking sticker. David opted to ski around some of the closer in trails while …
