HELENA, MT
After mass at the beautiful cathedral we were dropped off at the misty, foggy, damp, cool trailhead. Its like a scene from Hounds of the Baskerville. Bizarre after extreme heat. The visibility did not help the early navigational issues. We encountered TreeGoo and the 3 of us stumbled around in the fog and blowdowns looking for trail. When it was finally found, TreeGoo took off and we geezers fell behind.
I also had a hiking pole that I had to fix on trail and an iPhone update that appears to lock up the device sometimes and broke the audio recording for my videos. Heck!
In Helena I discovered I need to start pumping out bigger miles and fewer days in town to complete by the end of September. I don’t want to get stuck in southern Colorado snow again. I need to start averaging 25 to 30 mile days.
We did 22 miles on pretty easy contours and camped by a disappointing water source on a cool, foggy, damp evening. We want to get some bigger miles in to get to Anaconda, and then to Darby. We are going to need a ride to Darby