YukonMontanaTannerTrapper
Explorer
Dougnuts.....I get that for sure.....and I assure you that it was awesome. The wildflowers were just beginning to bloom and of course the scent of the evergreens is wonderful. Everything there, really, was & is wonderful.....
After two nights camped at the Rock Creek Trailhead, it was finally time to move on.....to move on to yet another trailhead.....and this trailhead & subsequent hike were the real reasons that we had come back to the Crazy Mountains.....
We returned to Highway 89, drove north to Wilsall, Montana, then took a right hand turn and left the paved highway behind and headed east back onto the dirt roads that took us back into the mountains.....
Unfortunately I had entered "Campfire Lake" (our end destination) into Google Maps rather than "Cottonwood Creek Trailhead" (our actual starting point).....
And that turned out to be a huge mistake on my part as we drove for better than an hour and ended up here.....here being the wrong place.....here being fenced off & posted.....
And with no cell service.....I had no idea how to get to the actual trailhead without retracing all that we had done that morning.....yes, it really did suck.....
And this was the last day of good weather.....rain was in the forecast for that night and for the following day.....that weather event would be followed by a few days of very high winds.....typical spring weather in Montana.....
I tried not to be too disappointed, but honestly, I was very disappointed.....
We really had no choice at this point in the day.....so we kind of headed home.....but not directly.....
After two nights camped at the Rock Creek Trailhead, it was finally time to move on.....to move on to yet another trailhead.....and this trailhead & subsequent hike were the real reasons that we had come back to the Crazy Mountains.....
We returned to Highway 89, drove north to Wilsall, Montana, then took a right hand turn and left the paved highway behind and headed east back onto the dirt roads that took us back into the mountains.....
Unfortunately I had entered "Campfire Lake" (our end destination) into Google Maps rather than "Cottonwood Creek Trailhead" (our actual starting point).....
And that turned out to be a huge mistake on my part as we drove for better than an hour and ended up here.....here being the wrong place.....here being fenced off & posted.....
And with no cell service.....I had no idea how to get to the actual trailhead without retracing all that we had done that morning.....yes, it really did suck.....
And this was the last day of good weather.....rain was in the forecast for that night and for the following day.....that weather event would be followed by a few days of very high winds.....typical spring weather in Montana.....
I tried not to be too disappointed, but honestly, I was very disappointed.....
We really had no choice at this point in the day.....so we kind of headed home.....but not directly.....
