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| Hiking | 9.58 Miles |
2,817 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.58 Miles | 4 Hrs 42 Mns | | 2.35 mph |
| 2,817 ft AEG | 37 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | | This trail and hike was the only read dud of the entire trip. The hiking book I had used to plan our time in the Bitterroots gave this trail great reviews and we read great things about it online. Unfortunately, we hit this trail nearly a year to the date that the Lolo Peak fire had gone through this area and most of the trail was completely burnt and at about 4.5 miles in we started to run into some significant deadfall and some areas that had been completely obliterated by the fire, not even a singe piece of green grass could be found in this section. The trail did have a few small slices of scenic forest that survived and offered some great views of some waterfalls in the distance, but this was only a teaser of what this once very popular and scenic trail had to offer. We knew the lakes at the end of the trail were a real treat, but we simply did not have the ambition to climb up and around deadfall to get there and it was shaping up to be a pretty warm day, so we cut our losses and headed back. Of course on our way back we ran into the trail clearing trail who intended to use chainsaws up to the wilderness boundary and hand saws the rest of the way, but they did mention that in severe instances they were sometimes given approval from above to bring the chainsaws in past the wilderness boundary. After I showed them some pictures of what lay ahead of them, they seemed to be mulling that option over. |
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