CDT Montana 2016
Day 19, July 24, Sunday.
Start 14-020M, past Schultz Creek
Stop 14-270M near creek
Miles on trail: 25.1
At mid-morning Surprise Lake appears.
Much of the day is among forest where all adult trees are dead, from beetle kill or fire, often still standing.
Trail crews have made an effort to remove fallen trees across the trail, but dead trees keep falling over time. In places you step over another tree every ten to twenty paces.
At the end of the day, on the last descent, trees become green aod alive as the trail proceeds into the Pintler Wilderness.
Several southbounders today:
Dances with Chickens, Lee (You Again AT2012) and J, Steve and Christiana, and Holden.
[finished audiobook Anne of the Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, read by Karen Savage]