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Most Scenic Day(6) Yet!

I forgot the day today. It's a nice revelation when you forget the date, or even the name of what day it is, it is a sign of a good vacation. Also, today we hiked on the actual Continental Divide, an alternative route (Mt. Morgan) highly recommended on the Ley Maps.

The day started out fairly nice. We headed up the pass slowly. Soon it turned to snowy fields again, but the going wasn't as rough, and I felt very comfortable reading my Ley maps, and guiding myself through the area mostly by terrain association. Freefall had his GPS out, but I felt pretty confident with out the support.  It was a pretty good climb up out of the snow fields, but the trail was easily made. We where up and off to the top of the pass in no time.

At the pass we took off on the alternative route. There was a bit of snow as we climbed and skirted around the mountain, but after that we where walking the divide. High and mighty, walking along shallow shelves with cliffs falling far bellow. The view's were spectacular. I even managed to get cell service (and made a quick random Facebook blurp) on one of the balled passes before making our descent down into Two Medicine. By far some of the best sites I have ever seen.

As we where walking the divide we where paying attention to the clouds, as they started to flirt with the mountains and look menacing. I pushed it for the remaining miles, excited by the thoughts of Hotdogs and a chance to get some flip flops. Sure enough after just arriving into Two Medicine the rain began to poor. We huddled into the store, and ate and drank hoping for a break in the weather. No Luck, soon the store closed, and we shuffled off to the backcountry camp site. The rain was relentless, and it was difficult to stay dry.

Day 7

Morning came, and the rain was still going strong. Freefall had gotten up in the middle of the night, soaked, and made the road walk into East Glacier. Chance and Luna, also fairing poorly in the rain made off early. So-Far and George where finishing packing and where deciding on hiking the trail to East Glacier. I decided that it wasn't worth the hassle of doing another pass out to East Glacier, with wet feet and all, and went for the road walk. Three miles down the road, with wet feet and a poor outlook, I decided to grab a hitch into East Glacier. My feet thanked me.