All the North Fork Park Roads are bike ridable, little patches of snow but they are probably gone by today!
The Ktunaxa name for glacier lily is maxa. Continue reading “Bike Rides to Bowman, Kintla and Logging”
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Spring Ride and Float
Easter Sunday has been the best day so far this spring! Camas Road is still closed for cars and GTTSR at Lake McDougall Lodge. The bike ride turned out to be 70 miles (112km) to the end of the road and back- made for a happy day! The river is running beautifully. I think I might be done skiing!
Bowman Lake
Calypsos and Clematis were out all along the Bowman Lake Trail
Calypso Orchids
Spring Time at Bowman Lake
Clematis all over the shore
Spring runoff is painting the water
Head of Bowman Lake
Looking down the lake
across the lake along Bowman Lake Trail
Spring Day at Bowman Lake
Bowman, Kintla and GTTSR
The first bike rides of the season are always a treat!
a canoe was missing in this photo
couple of loons
evening light at the lake
always a treat
You can barley make out the plowed road passed this slide…
I had about enough at this big slide
Heavens Peak and the Upper McDonald Creek Valley
Washout at Anaconda Creek
Flat tire- Wach auf!
Prairie Crocus
Kintla Lake on a stormy day
Upper Kintla rapids from the inside road
Shooting Stars
GTTSR The Third
This time around I almost didn’t make it to Oberlin Bend, where the plows were parked: one of my chain links broke just below Haystack Butte. I was looking at the prospect of limping my trusted Tourmallet back, not worried about the downhill but I had parked way back at Lake McDonald Lodge 🙁
As it happens first guy I asked for a chain breaker had one along and the ride and day was saved! Thank you Mike!
Besides bumping into friends I saw my share of flowers, sheep and a marmot.
GTTSR #2
Another great weekend for riding the Going-to-the-sun road. Besides Glacier Lilies this
time around we saw Trilliums, Spring Beauties, Paintbrushes and lots of varieties of violets. Three Bighorn Rams crossed the road just above the Weeping Wall, heading up, where else? Photos of the equipment, Clements Moutain and looking north up into the McDonald Valley and over Flattop Mountain.
Joff’s Journey- Call of the Road
The Penny Farthing World Tour continues..
http://calloftheroad.smugmug.com/Site-files/Current-Journey
I bumped into Joff on his first go around the world, eastbound in 2008 just outside of San Francisco and rode as far as the Grand Canyon with him. Joff is now on his second go around, this time westbound and made to Polebridge! It was fun catching up with him and I wished I’d be riding with him towards Mexico now!
Going to the sun road
Great bike ride with Mike Oppenheimer up towards Logan Pass. The plows were parked just below Triple Arches!
Going to the sun road
It’s just under 100 klicks from the Camas Bridge to Logan Creek round trip. That’s where the Hiker/ Biker closure was. The plows have made it about a mile plus past the loop. A good sunburn was the reward of this first day of May and my first daffodil flowered out! There were some good slides along the road, I’m excited to go further up now.
Spring Bike Riding
Going-To-The-Sun road is still only open to Lake McDonald Lodge, the Hiker/Biker closure is at Logan Pass. Camas Road is open for car traffic as well as the Kintla Lake Road from the Polebridge Entrance to the end of Big Prairie. Ranger word is that the Bowman Road will not open until May 22nd and the Kintla Road above Big Prairie is not scheduled to open until June 8th. So, the pavement makes some good road riding with little traffic this time of the year and then, there is always Bowman Lake!
