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Wandering through an old forest of giant cedars, the rushing Ward Creek spills over and between boulders creating a series of small rapids and waterfalls, and this is only the beginning of our hike to Hazel and Hub Lakes in the Great Burn Wilderness Study Area. After a steep set of switchbacks across an open…
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There we were…one mile through a pitch-black tunnel and still another mile to go. We had crawl over boulder piles and up a lava fall (literally a fall of frozen rock). And this was only the beginning. We explored the Ape Cave neat Mount St. Helens in Washington, a chilly, dark lava tube over two…
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Good buddy John H. took us across Flathead Lake from Safety Bay to Wild Horse Island. We hiked to the high point, and we were treated to quite the show with some giant bighorn sheep rams and views of Flathead Lake. Hike to the high point of the island mainly follows a series of well-worn…
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As June was closing out, we hike into the astonishing Muddy Creek Canyon, a slot canyon with a cascading waterfall located in the Rocky Mountain Front, northwest of Choteau, Montana. Tom Kotynski characterized this amazing place as “one of the most accessible and yet more visually pleasing sites on the Rocky Mountain Front”. Muddy Creek…
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We're not always hiking…really, it's true. The other afternoon we spent at Flathead Lake with good friend John, who graciously served as captain as we cruised around Flathead Lake. The Montana skies were cleared of wildfire smoke in a stroke of good luck. We went to several islands, including Bird Island (which burned last year),…
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While nearby Cannon Beach teems with hordes of people, their children, and their dogs, Crescent Beach is a secluded little beach, hemmed in by headlands, Ecola Point and Chapman Point. The good thing is the masses are too lazy to take the short 1.25 mile hike with a few muddy sections and some steep sections…