Participants: Alden Wright, David and Julie Kahl You know it was a successful trip when Alden comes back tired! But then he did several side trips, as we skied the 9 mile/ 14.48k round trip up to Moose Pass on the 13 mile/ 20.93k Moose Ridge Loop and put on 2 1/2 more miles/ 4.02k …
map12_5map12_5.pdf Trip report for Gold Creek XC Ski on December 5, 2020 The Missoula Nordic Ski Club is starting to develop a new set of Nordic ski trails in the Gold Creek drainage northeast of Missoula. I was aware of these as an inactive board member of the MNSC. They packed most of these trails …
Participants: Tom Statz, Peter Rice, David and Julie Kahl My opting to meet a half hour earlier than I had in the past, paid off as there was still plenty of parking available in the Visitors’ Center parking lot. It was a perfect day for an easy ski. There was no new snow at Lolo …
Date: October 10, 2020 Leader: Elizabeth Moore Participants for Workday: Lance C., Alden W., David K., Dean S., Al B. We enjoyed readying our cabin for winter. Forest D. lugged a chainsaw up to the cabin (1.5 miles and 1200’ climb) the day before and found that the lock had been broken off and the …
Lance Cherry and Odette Grassi joined Alden Wright for a hike up Sheep Mountain via the Gold Creek trailhead. To get there, take the Gold Creek turnoff on Highway 200 about 9 miles from Bonner, and in less than a mile take the heavily traveled road to the left. (The sign was unreadable.) If you follow the most …
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Canyon Peak (Bitterroots) Date: October 3, 2020 Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Bryan Kercher, Corey Hinshaw I had listed this trip for the following weekend, but when an October forecast calls for 70’s, clear skies and no wind, well you gotta take advantage, and thus we moved it up a week. Bryan and Corey were in …
Dates: September 25-27, 2020 Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Elizabeth Moore, Bryan Kercher, Sam Hathcock A group of 4 of us headed south to the Pioneer Range in Idaho for this fine late September weekend on Friday, arriving at various times. None of us had ever set foot in the Pioneers before, so this was a …
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Every Thing You Wanted To Know About The Little Park Cr. Rd. and were afraid to ask Sun. Sept. 20th, 2020 Participants: Steve Schombel, David & Julie Kahl What a glorious cool rainy day and clean air for this hike, even when it rained on us. Because a shuttle was involved we met a little …
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16TH Annual Glacier Classic- August 22-23, 2020 This was an extreme scaled back version of our annual Glacier Classic. Not willing to let a year go by without our annual August trip to Glacier National Park, three of us managed to keep the tradition alive. With perfect weather, sunny skies and the most virus free …
On a bluebird morning a combined group of Rocky Mountaineers and Glacier Mountaineering Society climbers started up the gated grassy road which leads to the Squeezer Creek trail. Squeezer Creek is pretty much THE way to climb Swan Peak thanks to Jim Valentine and Paul Gereg. Jim blazed the trail years ago and both Jim …
