Category: Montana

Day 2 We woke to another form of hiker/biker site crime. I had seen that all four slots at our A-loop site had been reserved for last night. Yet, we were the only souls present for the day and night. Since you can only book the sites 1 day in advance, did this mean 3-to-6…

Yesterday afternoon when we turned up to the hiker/biker site at Sprague Creek, the three tent pads were already taken: one clearly by (absent) bike tourers (who had the same tent and chairs as we did), one by unknown (absent) maybe day-hikers, and one by two sullen, uncommunicative girls in a giant Coleman tent who…

Oh man, I’m so sorry Dennis! Back in 2012, Amtrak’s Empire Builder brought my good friend and his bicycle from Chicago to East Glacier. The next morning, he left his East Glacier hotel, and rode north to St. Mary over a couple of major climbs, a route we essentially repeated on our 5th day in…

Day 2 After a couple hike-free days, it was time to get back on the trail. First order of business was a restaurant-breakfast fuel-up. Their menu was quite limited, because they were awaiting their weekly restock coming later today and had sold out of a lot of items. We faced the same issue getting groceries…

By the time we woke up at 7:15am, the three through-hikers were already packed up and gone. While it seems exhausting to be hiking any time you aren’t sleeping, and sleeping any time you aren’t hiking, I have to admit that there’s something attractive about the simplicity of it: when you have only two things…