This trail is up a gravel road that starts well groomed, but the farther up the road, the gravel turns to rocks and the dips turn into holes to be swerved around. The beginning of the road is driveways to ranchland, but if you follow long enough, there's a few places to park and a circle of trail heads.
The forest near Philipsburg are filled with dead trees. There's a beetle (Pine Beetle) that are slowly killing swaths of trees. Some forests get cleared out-- either by fire or by humans, but this trail is not one. It makes the forest so busy
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It snowed last night-- these pictures are from months ago, back when the earth was green and not brown and frozen. I thought people were exaggerating when they said Montana was brown, but they were not.
I'm dreaming of a green summer, or at least a month or so of green leaves.
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