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Sometime ago in a faraway time-79/80perhaps-I sat up on top of the same. We had rode horses up the North or South fork of the flathead-can’t remember which-and fished for a week. And then rode part way, tied them and hiked the rest up to the Wall.
Shot an Elk around Independence Park..
At the time I was told very few went there in any one year.
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I'm sure there are more folks using it now than 40 years ago, but it's BIG (the Bob Marshall, the Scapegoat and the the Great Bear wildernesses are contiguous) so easy to get lost. We saw four groups of folks on day one (all headed out), no one on day two, one person day three, no one on day four and two folks on day five and they were just out for a day hike and probably weren't going to even make it to the Wilderness Boundary- so yeah, pretty nice
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4 miles on the trails this morning with my wife and Tiny E- got a little rain, we could use 3-4 days straight of it though
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4 miles with Tiny Elvis this morning, temps were nice- low 60's, but the smoke not so nice
will be heading out tomorrow with my oldest daughter's family (and two of my grandkids!) to a yurt we rented in the Big Belt Mtns; the yurt sits at 9000' with forecast highs in the 60's- in town 90's- yeah!
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Good week at the gym, still making gainzz. Probably going to stop increasing next week to reduce chance of injury and focus more on cardio. 4 weeks until I leave for MT for 2 wks then SD for a week.
3x 60min bike rides also this week, all cardio based workouts on the trainer. Plan a 8ish mile hike with pack tomorrow. There are supposed to be some steep sections on this trail so it should be a good workout.
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Well the 8ish mile hike turned into 12 miles with just under 4000ft climb. Last 2 miles were a little bit of a sufferfest. I got a little too ambitious. Humidity sux.
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Just in from a great workout, packed a 13.5lb 577 Nitro Express double rifle with a 12 round ammo belt, had a set of Geovids strapped on along with a G21 and a 5" Bagwell Damascus skinner along for the ride, hit the trail I cut for Wife a month ago, went up the mountain a bit to pull trail cam card, her phone app said 3.5 miles and 12 flights of stairs, what a rush, just killed a quart of water and ate two bananas ; ]
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got back from our yurt trip; pretty neat the yurt sits at just shy of 9000', unfortunately a bunch of smoke rolled in (I think a bunch clear from CA)- still had a great trip- about 15 miles and a couple of thousand feet gain
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Dang MTW, no wonder you like to walk over mountains, you look 7ft tall.
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that's my son-in-law I'm barely 6'- a mere runt
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LOL, okay, that said, I followed a 6' 6" 28 year old kid over an elk mountain one year, that boy damn near killed me he did!
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always hunt with someone slower; particularly in grizzly country the smoke and clouds yesterday foiled the forecast highs in the 90’s, sooo TE and I hit the trails for 4 miles
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yesterday as I drove home from work (10 minutes tops) I watched the temperature drop from the mid 80's to mid 60's (a little precipitation mixed in too), wind shifted to straight out of the west, instead of southwest- so it took a bunch of the smoke with it; what a blessing! Tiny Elvis and I enjoyed 5 miles on a really nice evening
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I haven't been out doing any hiking, been trying to get my gear and new truck set up for the journey west.
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8 miles with Tiny Elvis this morning, we put the pedal to the metal and finished in just a little over two hours- TE flushed a big blue grouse, they looked to pretty close to the same size
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8 miles with Tiny Elvis this morning, we put the pedal to the metal and finished in just a little over two hours- TE flushed a big blue grouse, they looked to pretty close to the same size Im starting to run into more and more blue grouse. How's the smoke now in W Montana?
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8 miles with Tiny Elvis this morning, we put the pedal to the metal and finished in just a little over two hours- TE flushed a big blue grouse, they looked to pretty close to the same size Im starting to run into more and more blue grouse. How's the smoke now in W Montana? It rolled in here Friday night (8/21)- evidently the vast majority from all the CA fires; yesterday evening the wind shifted straight out of the west (had been southwest) and started clearing it out, today was better- but still some lingering haze, supposedly a cold front moving in Saturday evening that will push the remaining smoke out (could still linger in the SW corner some). We have a few fires going, but most are small- still riding on a great June- below normal temps and above normal precipitation, so a good cool down (and some moisture) might just let us squeak by
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always hunt with someone slower; particularly in grizzly country the smoke and clouds yesterday foiled the forecast highs in the 90’s, sooo TE and I hit the trails for 4 miles , or at least someone you're willing to 10mil kneecap ; ] I was on an invited hunt, the kid was my guide, some rule/reg for hunting New Mexico I believe, was very happy and grateful to be there, but would have died smiling anyway.
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