some exceptional October weather kept me going to the Whitefish Mountains…
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Nasukoin Mountain
on an October Outing to the Whitefish Mountains..
Demers Ridge
Here are some views from Demers Ridge: First along the ridge to the south you can make out Huckleberry lookout; the north towards Winona Ridge and the upper north fork; in the third photo you can make out Rainbow and the north fork road and Demers trail head down below; then we are looking north again, you can make out home ranch bottoms, Winona Lake and Big Prairie in the park; and finally on the last photo we are looking south at the Camas ans McDonald Valleys and Camas Road.
Cyclone Lookout
Here is Oliver on a great outing to Cyclone Lookout, just a little south of Polebridge. Great views reveal the frozen Bowman Lake with little sleepy Polebridge in the Foreground. The view towards the south shows the lower part of the North Fork Valley and some more of the Glacier Peaks, all capped by the cloud ceiling.
glacier view II
a good snowshoe trail leads up to glacier view now …
UofM mountains class in polebridge
As every year professors Sarah Halvorson and Rick Graetz bring a group of students to the north fork and pretty much take over the place… 
glacier view on new year’s day
what a great day to start the new year- in the background you can see Stanton, Mt. Vaught and Heavens Peak and many more of the Glacier Park Peaks of course. Happy New Year to everybody!
Mt Thompson-Seton II
Huckleberry Frostys all the way up to Semo Pass, what a treat! Probably the best ones I’ve ever had! There was up to 8 inches of snow on top with drifts significantly higher, it felt a lot like winter up there but when the breeze stopped it was really pleasant! 
Nasukoin Mountain
While the alpine larch are turning and with some good October sunshine another of my all time favored north fork hikes…
Mt. Thompson-Seton
the hike up to thompson-seton was not as challenging as I expected. There was a bunch of snow on the way and the ice ax was a handy tool to bring along. Plenty of trees down also, there were about a dozen from the trail head to Inuya pass and another dozen or so to the notch, beyond I couldn’t tell because the snow was seriously deep. Having said that, it was easy to follow the trail so far even given plenty of old snow drifts on the way, which were up to three feet deep. The creeks were also a challenge to cross on dry feet, in a fun way, though. From the notch on there was no way to follow the trail, solid snow cover for most of the way and I just worked my way to the summit via the ridges, a combination of scree scrambling, walking on cornices and traverses… another rocky mountain high!
