Category: Montana

It’s finally time to move up to the top fork of the trident on Glacier’s east side: Many Glacier! While the distance from this middle fork to the top is similar to the distance between the lower fork (Two Medicine) and the middle, there is much less climbing. Thus we were able to laze in…

In the middle of the night, I started hearing a rustling outside the tent. Five minutes of listening confirmed that I wasn’t imagining it, and it wasn’t stopping, so I figured I ought to do something about it. It sounded like too fine of work to be a bear, but what the heck do I…

Day 2 For the first night in a long time, the meteorological metrics of low temperature and rain probability were such that we could let laziness take over and skip putting the rainfly on the tent. But the other meteorological metrics of clear skies, temperature changes, and dewpoint surprisingly meant the top of our sleeping…

Time to move on from Two Medicine. We certainly didn’t do all the hiking there that we would have liked to, but even with our unconstrained peregrination, we’ll always have to leave some things undone, and we also needed a return to connectivity. It was interesting on the ride out (which was a repeat of…

Day 2 After seven straight days of riding, it was time to give our bodies a break. So no epic (or even non-epic) mountain hikes until we’re rested up. An advantage of our no-deadline life is that, even though we’re in this special place, we don’t need to try to optimize every moment here by…