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For our second hike this morning, we drove to the Waterworks Trailhead in the NOrth Hills Open Space to hike up the ridge. We hiked most of the way along the North Ridge Trail and came back along the Cherry Gulch Trail to make a 3 mile loop with 500 ft of overall gain. Lovely views of the mountains surrounding Missoula and a different assortment of wildflowers in bloom from thos...

We drove to the main Pattee Canyon TRailhead in the Lolo National Forest this morning anp put together some of the trails there to make a loop in the Ponderosa Forest. Our route was about 3 miles with 265 ft of overall gain. It was a little chilly as the sun was rising. We saw a black bear cross the trail and head up a hill (no photo) and a great variety of early wildflowers in ...

Ater our hike at the Whiskey Dick Wildlife Area, we did the short drive to the Wild Horse Wind Farm to check out their Bitterroot Trail to see if the bitterroot and cacti were in bloom. This is a short trail next to the visitor center, about 1 mile round trip with 150 ft of loss/gain. We saw bitterroot blooming on the lower half of the trail and one basalt cactus in bloom along ...

We drove to the Corrals Trailhead at the Whiskey Dick Unit of the Wenas Wildlife Area, hoping to hike up to the ridge where I heard the bitterroot and cacti were in bloom along with other wildflowers. When we reached the parking area there was a road work going on in the parking lot and we discovered this route was closed for road work. We were informed the next trailhead was op...

Drove up to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park to hike up to Hurricane Hill. The Hurricane Hill Road is currently closed, so I hiked up along the closed road and up the trail (about 6 miles round trip)ln the way back I decided to hike the Meadow Trail over to Sunrise Point and then back to my car making the trip about 7 miles with 1,200 ft of overall gain. There are a few ...