CDT Montana 2016
Day 13, July 18, Monday.
Start 08-150M on a grassy ridge along the Divide
Stop near 09-094XX on a flat hill of lodgepole pines
Miles: 20.9
Not far from our camp, I see a stock tank right next to the trail, not on any hiker map.
Most of the morning is on 2-track, in forest mixed with.grass.
I descend down towards Lemhi Pass.
The pass is important to the Lewis and Clark history.
Near the pass is the Sacajawea Memorial Area, which has a spring that I used for water.
Climbing up out of the pass, I look back.
Past the detour for Pattee Creek, I decide to double back and get some water, since I might be too slow to hike to the next spring before end of day. Where the Pattee detour rejoins the CDT, I see an actual trail angel next to his truck.
Crazy Joe is a semi-retired attorney, who parks his truck near trails in summer and day-hikes and does trail angel acts of kindness for hikers. He offered a camp chair, ice cold coke, and fun conversation. DNA showed up after a half hour, and turns out he already met Joe at another trail location. I might have stayed two hours talking and listening. Topics of conversation included but were not limited to the army, calciferous growth, military intelligence and bulges in clothing, White Castle sliders, accelerated evolution of enzymes, 101st Airborne, patent attorney work in Singapore, favorite rock bands of the 70’s (with singing), and the guy in Canada lost with an axe wound tripping on mushrooms.
Hiking on, DNA and I find another flat place to camp, among lodgepole pines.
Southbouders met today: Washpot, Moonbeam, Kim Chee, and Waitup.