Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, tagged Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The “cab” on the peak.
There is very little information available about most of the lesser known western mountain peaks, and what is available is hard to come by. In my searches for information on Penrose I found practically nothing, but it did show up in one listing of peaks that had been used as fire [...]
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Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Baldy Mountain, Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The following photos were taken along the top half mile of the trail, where I moved much more slowly, not because the climb was all that difficult, but because the views used up all of my available attention.
The Bitterroot Range is at the horizon in the first three photos.
In this photo the small town of [...]
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Posted in Animals, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Environment, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 12, 2008 | 14 Comments »
The last section of trail 385 to the top of the peak is about a mile and a half long. It starts at 5,700 feet, reaches 7,073 feet at the top, and gets there rather aggressively. In the next photo, Penrose is the peak to the left and the trail roughly follows the crest of [...]
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Posted in Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Environment, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 10, 2008 | 14 Comments »
From the saddle where I spent a cool but comfortable night under an ink-black sky chock full of pure white stars which are ever so much brighter in the high country, there are two routes that may be taken to get to Penrose, and they converge about a mile and a half before the final [...]
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Posted in Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The beginning of the trip.
I will post quite a few of the photos I took on this hike in order to give a good idea of what the whole area looks like and what one sees while walking through it. There are great views available just about everywhere. I think it will be best to [...]
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Posted in Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
On the south side of the Clark Fork River in western Montana, about a hundred miles south of Canada and thirty miles east of Idaho, the Cherry Peak roadless area occupies 59 square miles of the Coeur d’Alene Mountains, and its two highest peaks, Cherry at 7,165 feet and Penrose at 7,073 feet stand nearly [...]
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Posted in Baldy Mountain roadless area, Cabinet Mountains, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, North Siegel - North Cutoff Roadless area, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, South Siegel - South Cutoff Roadless Area, tagged South Siegel - South Cutoff Roadless Area, Baldy Mountain roadless area, Patrick's Knob - North Cutoff roadless area, North Siegel roadless area on June 29, 2008 | 14 Comments »
This will be the last post in this series: after all, how much can be said about a three mile trail?
The Clark Fork of the Columbia River flows in a northwesterly direction for about three hundred miles from its source in the Deerlodge National Forest at the Continental Divide near the town of Butte Montana [...]
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Posted in Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Rural fire department, Wildflowers, tagged (mimulus tricolor), Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Rural fire department, Tricolor Monkeyflower on June 20, 2008 | 10 Comments »
It began yesterday and will continue tomorrow (at least the posting part of it).
It’s time to replenish the firewood supply for winter and we’ve been working quite diligently on doing just that. Early yesterday morning I tackled the job of splitting and stacking the last of the wood my son and I have hauled down [...]
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Posted in Hiking, Montana, Munson Creek, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, Wildflowers, tagged Munson Creek trail, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, Trillium on April 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
The weather forecast for today called for rain and snow showers early and snow moving in after noon. Just the kind of day for a hike into Munson Creek in the eastern edge of the TeePee-Spring Creek roadless area!
At nine o’clock when I crossed footbridge over Munson Creek not far from the trailhead it started [...]
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When I first explored part of this trail back in January, it looked like it would provide a very scenic hike for about eight miles along the Clark Fork river while staying within the South Siegel - South Cutoff roadless area. Wednesday I hiked the first three miles and found it a little disappointing: I [...]
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