January 2, 2022 Saddle between Deer Creek and Miller Creek This was a hybrid trip with Thursday Night Mountain Bike group members and Rocky Mountaineers members, so I didn’t require Rocky Mountaineers membership. We left the Pattee Canyon Picnic area parking lot at about 12:15 pm and skied up the steeper trail headed south. It …
Date: December 21, 2021 Participants: Candy Hartman, Megan Apple, Jordan Martin, Forest Dean Four of us headed down the Bitterroot on this Tuesday morning to celebrate the Winter Solstice with a ski up and down Ward Mountain (9119’). We got started at 9:15 from the Ward Mtn trailhead up Roaring Lion Creek. We were able …
Participants: Steve Schombel, Peter DiFurio, Eric, Mitch, Shirley & Tracy Hall, David & Julie Kahl When it seemed that we would have both a ski and a snowshoe party, I had pretty much decided to go with the snowshoe party, so it wasn’t quite too disturbing when, while loading our gear that morning, we discovered …
Participants Steve Schombel, Peter Rice, Christann Schmid & Dog, Cooper, David & Julie Kahl It was another incredible autumn day! The five of us met at the Snowbowl Parking Lot on Reserve St. and drove in two vehicles to the site, up the West Fork Of Fish Cr. of the Clearwater Crossing Ranger Station. It’s …
Clearwater Crossing, new Bridge Sun. Oct 17th, 2021 Read More »
Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Tom Statz, Arthur Endsley, Raymond Cavalcante, Corey Hinshaw, Elizabeth Moore The six of us met at the Glen Lake trailhead at 8:30am. Yet another spectacular fall day! We hiked up the trail to Glen Lake then branched north at the trail junction that heads to that lake instead following the trail …
Hidden Lake Peak (Bitterroots) Sunday, October 3, 2021 Read More »
Participants: David and Julie Kahl Ogden Mt. FINALLY! And how about that day, could we have had a better day than if we had special ordered it? As it was just David and I we decided that rather than camping, we would just do it as a long day on Saturday, getting up early and …
Dates: September 11-12, 2021 Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Corey Hinshaw, Andrew Twardowski, Leland Earls On a great early fall weekend, Corey, Andrew and I headed up Chaffin Creek in the Bitterroots at 8:00am on Saturday morning. We hiked the approximate 6 miles to Tamarack Lake, arriving at 10:40am. We set up our camp, had some …
17TH Annual Glacier Classic- August 19-22, 2021 Divide Creek Campground, St. Mary, Montana After a year in near hiatus (only three of us attended the Classic last year due to COVID) it was GREAT to be back in Glacier for our 17th Classic! Around 30 people planned on attending but these numbers got halved due …
Trip Report for Brushy Fork Marmot Study Hike. Date: July 4, 2021 Co-leaders: Alden Wright & Jim Semmelroth We did not see any marmots. We did not even see the study area. After meeting at the Walmart parking lot, Leyla Eraybar, Alden Wright, and Cathy & Jim Semmelroth pooled into one vehicle and proceeded to …
Oregon Lakes Trip Report June 26, 2021 This trip was part of the Marmot Madness proposal described at http://hs.umt.edu/umzm/marmots.php. Here is the trip proposal that I posted on the Rocky Mountaineers calendar: We will look for marmots in the vicinity of the Oregon Lakes. We will hike about a mile of the state line trail, …
