It is sunny out and in the 70s finally and it looks like the snow will melt before my friend Paul arrives for his visit to Missoula.This weekend I was out “training” for his term here. We will be camping and biking a lot so that is what I did. After pre riding a race course at the Discovery Ski Area it was evident that the weekend was a wash so I showed up at my friend Garland’s cabin door looking for adventure. First, though, I had to wait for him to get back from fishing!
A couple beers and some in depth discussion about 24 hour and endurance racing we were all dozing off to single track dreams. The next morning we headed out for Moose Creek Road over by Skalkaho Pass. We parked and went up every trail we could find. We started out with some single track to a Wilderness Boundary. then we discovered that the other trail heads in the area were posted as no mountain biking. So we hit the Jeep Trails.
We found this one that went skyward towards the west and, well, that one has to be finished later. As we found out the day before when you climb up a little you hit snow. Deep snow!
Towards the end of the day we discovered the motherload. It is a trail with many opportunities off of it and it appears to be a main snow machine trail. We had to give up on it though as we ran out of time. I now have in mind some exploring in the Pintlers. I’ll be back!
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