Castle Rock Glacier is, for all practical purposes, gone. That bit of open water at the toe is now just another un-named lake. It was still most of a square mile of ice at the time.
The ice in the upper end of Lake Fork still exists but it is much smaller. And yes, that was an early...
The last three nights, from Castle Lake, over the pass by Sky Top Lake, and out to the trailhead on the Lake Fork of Rock Creek.
Castle Lake
Crystal Lake
Maryott Lake
Cloverleaf Lakes, Lonesome Peak
Doneldson Lake, the next to last camp
Lonesome Mountain
View down Lake Fork from...
This reach of the trip continues over to Sierra Creek and the two night stay at Castle Lake with another day trip to Castle Rock Glacier.
We are eventually headed for that gap in the far ridge.
Sierra Creek
Outlet of Summerville Lake
Castle Lake
Sierra Creek
Flat Rock Lake
Toe...
This was a 8 day trip that started at the same place as the 1980 trip, the Chief Joseph Trailhead. We stayed on the Beaten Path to Russel Lake, thence to Mariane where we camped two nights with a day trip up past Red Rock Lakes to Summit Mountain. The third night was spent at Big Butte Lake, the...
I have another trip where we were out on Castle Rock Glacier. At the time (1987), there was still about a square mile of ice. It is now entirely gone. Before and after shots of that would be interesting.
Cairn Lake. The valley fog is in East Rosebud Creek.
Medicine Lake
East Rosebud Creek
Impasse Falls-the same photo everyone takes
Lake At Falls
Rainbow Lake
Rainbow was the end of my photography for that trip
I have recently taken up the task of scanning my slides from the last century. Most of these were Kodachrome 25 which neither of my two dedicated slide scanners much appreciated but which the flat plate scanner seems to do an acceptable job-just really slow. This was a 1980 trip through the...
Twin Lakes headwall. Skied many a run on there but never on the lift-it wasn't built yet. I liked the runs off Beartooth Pass summit into Rock Creek better but you can't really yo-yo those.
Day 3. The only objective for day 3, besides getting home, was a look at the Birch Creek CCC camp. I did not look anything up on the web prior to our visit and was surprised to find it essentially complete, rather than a little rubble in an empty field.
And an obviously...
Day 2. Bond Creek
We spent day 2 off FS 7470 and 7471 in the Bond Creek drainage. Bond and Deerhead Lakes were the objectives. These trails were a little rough and the skid protection did get used.
Torrey Mountain.
Bond "Lake". Tweedy Mountain (highest point in the Pioneers at 11,154) lies...
This was a "beat the rush" 3 day Labor Day outing on Birch Creek North of Dillon, Montana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Mountains_). Contrary to the usual Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest travel plans, the Pioneers appear to have been neglected thus far. We did not find any...
A few last summer photos from two Jeep trips up Dry Boulder Creek (out of Twin Bridges, MT), the first early August and the second a couple weeks later. The destination was Upper and Lower Boulder Lakes. There was a lot of smoke for the first trip and quite a bit less for the second.
Southwest...
I completely agree that most ATV/UTV/motorcycle riders I've encountered seem to be needing to get somewhere in a big hurry. OR be afflicted with some sort of right hand palsy. My 50" machine is set up more like a crawling Jeep and I don't suspect the speedometer ever much exceeds 10 mph...
Another Jeep camping trip from last year. This one was up FS 1221 to South Meadow Creek Lake for overnight and then FS 9649 past the Missouri-McKee mine workings and out on top near the summit of South Baldy Mountain.
Camp at South Meadow Lake.
South Meadow Creek Lake.
Tram tower that...
Day 2. We again retraced our path over the divide on FS 160 and dropped into South Willow Creek. We were on several miles of typical FS road here.
Mine Peak with Granite Peak to left.
And of course we couldn't get out of this without a couple of "kid" photos.
Granite (left) and little...
My wife and I bought a 2016 RZR 900 EPS Trail several years back to use on BLM/FS 50" designated trails. It got severely baptized shortly after purchase and I spent most of the following winter modifying it into something that actually works. Fast forward to the present with my wife quickly...