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Greetings Misfits! I'm excited to share my experience with the incredible Northbound Gear Adventure Water Resistant Pants that have been my go-to for the past 4 months. Through the winter wonderland of Montana, these pants have never let me down. Now, I have to admit, they do have a bit of a 1970s look to…
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Waterworks Hill lies to the northeast of Missoula, and it sports a nice network of trails over and around its grassy slopes. The hike to the "summit" (you can't call it a summit, can you?) is a quick one mile and around 700 feet up, but the real fun is in extending your trek to the…
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Only a short and relatively easy 1.5 miles from the trailhead, Bear Creek Falls is one of the most picturesque waterfalls in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana. I have made the trip to this falls on numerous occasions and always found my images wanting for something. That is until this weekend when I flew the…
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It was that season again…not the holidays, but the Christmas Bird Count season. Joined by Tom Forwood and Bob Danley at the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. We explored the back areas of the Refuge that are typically closed to the public, and we turned up 56 species through a long day. the highlights included…
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We did this hike last year, but with considerably less snow. It has really dumped this year in the Bitterroot Mountains, and the Bass Creek drainage is under a blanket of the white stuff. Were we deterred? Oh hell no, Jeff and I made relatively good time to the old log dam where I flew…
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This past weekend was definitely the start of the Montana spring with sun, rain, and snow…you know, spring in the Bitterroot. The Lee Metcalf NWR was alive with Great Horned Owls hooting and Red-winged Blackbirds carrying on.
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Nothing like an autumn hike up to the top of Mount Sentinel via the Pengelly Ridge route. #hiking #Missoula #MountSentinel
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Finally, finally…we are out and hiking again with the whole crew, and for the first "real" hike of 2019, we put on the YakTrax and hiked to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness boundary. We started the day at the Larry Creek trailhead as the deeply rutted ice-packed road to the Bass Creek trailhead looked a bit too…
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A jewel indeed! The Jewel Basin is nestled atop the Swan Range above the Flathead Valley, and it is a hikers paradise with miles and miles of well-maintained trails. On this trip, we and Jeff ascended up an exposed ridge to the summit of Mount Aeneas. This mountain is the namesake of Kootenai Chief Aeneas…