CDT Montana 2016
Day 23, July 28, Thursday.
Start near 19-272GT, a few miles after Anaconda Cutoff reunites with CDT
Stop 19-529XX Bison Mountain Loop
Miles walked: 25.7
The trail is now relocated away from Leadville, and I did not go off-trail to explore whatever remains.
No vistas today. If you can see over to the next ridge, it is just more dense forest like on your ridge.
Toward the end of the day the path goes down a narrow corridor of young lodgepole pines.
You can already see some young pine trees losing the race to the sun, falling over and dying early from too much shade from taller neighbors.
You know what likes to live in lodgepole pine forest? Spiders. They like to spin webs between trees. Several species are spinning, based on different web design. Bushwacking through one little section of dense lodgepole forest alive with spiders, I started thinking of Harry Potter, or Frodo…
Met southbounders Mud, and then Masshole and Stummy.
[finished audiobook The Merchant Adventurer, by Patrick E McClean.]