Day 41: Snowstorm!

Monday, July 27 When the alarm went off, it was sprinkling outside so we snoozed for another 30 minutes until the rain stopped. It looked ...

Day 40: Rolling grasslands

Sunday, July 26 We slept in and relaxed at the hotel for a couple hours in the morning. We didn't dare go back to waste our time at th...

Day 39: Down to Leadore

Saturday, July 25 We made the 11 or so miles into Bannock Pass pretty quickly. Town days always bring out the fastest hiking speed. It hel...

Day 38: Lazy day

Friday, July 24 The last 4 days since Darby has been pretty difficult. On par with the section from Benchmark to Helena. The elevation gai...

Day 37: Wet feet

Thursday, July 23 It rained most of the night. Luckily when we woke up it had stopped. Andy and I went over the maps the night before an...

Day 34: Back to the steep climbs

Monday, July 20 We woke up and headed to breakfast at the diner. They had some of the best Bacon I've ever had. It was pretty amazing....

Day 36: Rain rain go away.

Wednesday, July 22 I usually set my alarm for 5:45am. This morning when the alarm went off, it was raining. We definitely didn't want ...

Day 35: Huckleberries!

Tuesday, July 21 Yesterday we found 3 ripe huckleberries on a bush and we were pretty excited about it. Until this morning when we encount...

Day 31-33: Into Darby, MT

Friday, July 17 to Sunday, July 19 I lost a couple posts somehow on my phone. So I'll do a multi-day update. Friday we did a full da...

Day 30: Up and down

Thursday, July 16 I've posted a pic of the profile for today's hike. It looks a whole lot like the Tour de France mountain stage f...

Day 29: Stormy

Wednesday, July 15 We were all sad to leave the ranch. We almost wanted to stay the rest of the day. But decided that we should keep walki...

Day 28: Crazy day

Tuesday, July 14 So Heather and I planned to go into Anaconda to pick up our package we mailed from Butte today. We hadn't decided i...

Day 27: Crossing the 15....again

Monday, July 13 The morning was pretty quick. Mostly downhill on fire roads. Heather and I called home to check in because walking on fire...

Day 26: Smooth sailing

After breakfast at the hotel. Heather and I asked the front desk if the hotel shuttle could take us back to the trail. They said they could ...

Day 25: Zero day in Butte

Heather and I woke up and went to breakfast. Gambling is apparently legal in Montana because almost every restaurant and bar has casino mach...

Day 24: Just get to the road!

Heather and I woke up a litte earlier so we could get to the road early and get to town. HikeBox and Heartbreaker were a little behind us le...

Day 23: False Info

  We had a bit of a late start this morning because we were talking with Mama Bear and Monkey for a little while longer. ...

Day 22: Leadville

Today we hiked all day with Hiker Box and Heartbreaker. They are a nice and very funny couple. Early in the morning we crossed through an ...

Day 21: Thunderbolt peak

This morning had a good amount of dirt road walking. But a single track took us over the first major climb. When we got to the top, I checke...

Day 20: Back on trail

We woke up and had to walk 2 miles to the main post office in town to pick up our resupply boxes. We then went to a breakfast place to eat...

Day 19: Zero in Helena

Today was great. Slept in, ate a ton of food, we went to go see Jurassic World at the movie theater. We then went back to the same restaur...

Day 18: Get to town!

After these last 5 days of very hard trail, we decided to get up extra early and hike the remaining 20 miles to the road so we could get int...

Day 17: Umbrella saves the day

Today was another day of nonstop climbs. It was also hot. I love my umbrella. It was exposed for a good portion of it and there was no sha...

Day 16: Longest day

Today is our longest day so far on trail. 25.4 miles. With about 3/4 of a mile side road walk to go get water. We had a few big, steep cli...