CDT Montana 2016
Day 14, July 19, Tuesday.
Start near 09-094XX on a flat hill of lodgepole pines
Stop 10-175M near Berry Creek
Miles: 27.4
After a brief climb the trail begins descending to Goldstone Pass.
I was not able to find the spring as described near the pass, so continued on.
Climbing up and sideways, the trail becomes rocky and continues so all day. From the state of one southbounder’s shoes, the rest of the trail to Canada may be full of rocks.
Also, the trail crosses many creeks today, ending the dry section of 50+ miles of no water directly on the trail.
As the trail descends near Jahnke Lake and along Jahnke Creek and beyond, it becomes a solidly engineered thing of beauty, a pleasure to walk on. Good trail the rest of the day.
One unusual bit of trail work is that a two-track road appears to be made into a trail path by covering one half of the road with dirt, rocks, and logs.
I only got off the trail for a quarter mile in late afternoon. When I got back to true trail, a couple of southbounders told me DNA had just gone by and was just a few hundred yards ahead of me. I raced to catch up, and we walked together for a few miles to a campsite near water. Good day.
Southbounders today included Lucky Strike, Steven, Cheese Snake, QTip, Dupont, and Llama.