Leader: Forest DeanParticipants: Brent Maier, Frank Dean, Tim Ward, Jacob McFarlane A couple winters ago, Brent had skied up on East Boulder and spied a fairly big ice flow. Ever since he had been proposing that we go try and climb it. With that in mind, we put this trip together. However, a couple days …
East Boulder Peak (Bitterroots) December 3, 2022 Read More »
Participants: Steve Schombel, David and Julie Kahl Though this trip was slated for Lolo Pass, with a winter storm coming in, Lolo Pass didn’t look very inviting, snowing with 40-50 MPH/65-80km winds. We opted instead to take our skis and snowshoes to Lubrecht, to see what we would find. There was a little more snow …
Annual Sunday after Thanksgiving Winter Outing Sun. Nov 27th, 2022 Read More »
This was a fairly straight forward hike, we’ve done this a lot as an early season, tick reduced hike, and got to where we could first see the downhill ski area infrastructure, but never knew where we were in reference to the old ski runs. We left Peter’s vehicle at the base of the Marshall …
Mittower Gulch To Marshall Mt, Sun. April 10th, 2022 Read More »
It was a hard day to dress for, the weather reports said we could find a dusting of snow at valley level, but we didn’t. But, after meeting at the Snowbowl parking lot in Grant Cr., as we drove west down I-90 to the western Alberton exit, it was obvious we were driving into snow …
Participants: Great Burn ranger Rory, Great Burn representative Kat, Rocky Mountaineer members Arthur Endsley, Forest Dean, Jim Semmelroth, Cathy Semmelroth, Candy Hartman, other volunteers Zoey, Max and Justin. Our group met at the Clearwater Crossing campground at 8:30 the morning of the 23rd. Fortunately the rains from the previous day were done but, due to …
Cedar Peak Trail Improvement Project September 23-25, 2022 Read More »
Participants: Gail & Dell Meuchel, Mark Albrecht, Candy Hartman, Cathy & Jim Semmelroth We knew we had a lucky day when two cars from different directions arrived within seconds of each other at the Printers Creek trailhead on the west side of Petty Mountain. There were a few sections on the three mile dirt road …
Divide Creek Campground, St. Mary, Montana Another year and another great Classic! 33 of us made the trip to St. Mary this year and enjoyed some great trips, great camp life and great weather. It was a great mix of first timers and seasoned Classic veterans. A record number of folks arrived on Thursday to …
18TH Annual Kercher Glacier Classic- August 18-21, 2022 Read More »
Participants: Corey Hinshaw, Andrew TwardowskiChecking off Bitterroot 9k peak number 18 off the list! Andrew and I got an early start to drive down to Chaffin Creek trailhead. At about 5.5 miles up the trail, we branched off to go up a south facing gulley that spits you out into the little tin cup hanging …
Participants: Corey Hinshaw, Nate Bender, Stefan Kolis, Kim Pearce, Nick Triolo, James (?)This was a trip that was officially posted on the events calendar. When it came down to a few days before the trip, the couple TRM members that were interested were unable to join. Holland Peak has been on my “to do” list …
Participants: Corey Hinshaw and Adam DrobishThis was another Bitterroot 9ker checked off the list. Adam was interested in joining, as he had attempted this mountain the year prior but was turned around near the summit. There had been a small forest fire on the shoulder of Koch around the 4th of July, so a fire …
