Another "Roots" trip
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We bailed out of town Friday 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 to sleep with the water filter to keep it from freezing. The 5 miles of Jeep trail get more interesting all the time and it takes us close to 2.5 hours to get from the trailhead to Upper Twin Lake. The short comings of the JK undercarriage are becoming blatantly obvious. I don't know how many times I ended up with the lower front control arms in the rocks but it was way more than once. The rear axle shock hangers weren't too far behind (read bigger tires coming soon).
Sterling Road, below Revenue Flats.
Ward Peak a couple miles below the start of the Jeep trail.
North Meadow Creek in one of several meadows, about half way up the trail. There was a little forest fire smoke. Cali source?
Upper Twin Lake, end of the Jeep trail.
From Upper Twin it was backpacks. Ward Peak from what we call Elk Meadow-always beds and scat everywhere. Didn't see any elk but there was a coyote there (and no, I didn't plug him).
Lady of the Lake Peak from the same meadow.
Our destination.
The bog birch was in a class of its own. Not sure why, but I haven't found that shrub elsewhere in the Roots.
Pikas were seemingly everywhere.
Upper and Lower Twin Lakes with Revenue spires and Madison Valley in the distance.
Sterling Road, below Revenue Flats.
Ward Peak a couple miles below the start of the Jeep trail.
North Meadow Creek in one of several meadows, about half way up the trail. There was a little forest fire smoke. Cali source?
Upper Twin Lake, end of the Jeep trail.
From Upper Twin it was backpacks. Ward Peak from what we call Elk Meadow-always beds and scat everywhere. Didn't see any elk but there was a coyote there (and no, I didn't plug him).
Lady of the Lake Peak from the same meadow.
Our destination.
The bog birch was in a class of its own. Not sure why, but I haven't found that shrub elsewhere in the Roots.
Pikas were seemingly everywhere.
Upper and Lower Twin Lakes with Revenue spires and Madison Valley in the distance.
