tobacco root mountains

  1. John Goering

    Tobacco Root Mountains Sailor, Globe, Brannan Lakes

    As with other areas in the South Boulder River drainage, access is via the Cardwell exit on Interstate 90, and thence about 5 miles south on Montana Highway 359. County/FS Road 107 exits MT 359 at the South Boulder River bridge and proceeds past the old mining town of Mammoth and eventually...
  2. John Goering

    Tobacco Root Mountains Curly Lake

    Curly Lake/Curly Creek is another location in the South Boulder River Drainage of the Tobacco Roots. Contrary to the dead end trails in most of this area, it is possible to traverse two different loops and thus this area is very popular with the mountain bike fraternity. The two primary access...
  3. John Goering

    Tobacco Root Mountains Lost Cabin Lake

    Access to this trail head (FS 7150) is identical to that for the Louise Lake Trail. "Access to the upper reaches of the South Boulder River is via Cardwell on Interstate 90 via about 5 miles of Montana Highway 359. County/FS Road 107 exits MT 359 at the South Boulder River bridge and proceeds...
  4. John Goering

    Tobacco Root Mountains, South Meadow Creek

    This drainage is another place on our annual visit list. Access is via South Meadow Creek Road that exits US 287 at McAllister, MT (Madison County). South Meadow Creek Road becomes FS Road 1221 about a mile below the Missouri-McKee Mine or about 3 miles below South Meadow Creek Lake (largest...
  5. John Goering

    North Meadow Creek nostalgia

    While I covered the backpacking portion of our recent trip there (http://backcountrypost.com/forum/threads/tobacco-root-north-meadow-creek-trip.3702/), part of the fun available with that location is certainly the Jeep trail that wasn't given much coverage in that thread. Here is 40 something...
  6. John Goering

    Tobacco Root Mountains Louise Lake trip

    My wife and I did this "over-nighter" last weekend. Access to the upper reaches of the South Boulder River is via Cardwell on Interstate 90 via about 5 miles of Montana Highway 359. County/FS Road 107 exits MT 359 at the South Boulder River bridge and proceeds past the old mining town of...
  7. John Goering

    Tobacco Root (North Meadow Creek) trip

    We bailed out of town Friday, Sept 19th at about 2 pm for another foray to North Meadow Creek (Madison County, MT) after getting snowed out of there over Labor Day weekend. This time the weather was as perfect as it can get but it did test the limits on my 15 degree rated sleeping bag and I had...

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