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...been up in the high country since last fall. On our next morning we start hiking up the Wendover Ridge, the route that Toby eventually recovered. The narrow trail leads through cedars and Douglas firs, and we pass clumps of bear grass, huckleberry bushes, dogtooth violets and carpets of wild strawberry plants in the clearings. The smell of wild licorice is on the air. But the going is tough. "The road as bad as it can possibly be to pass," wrote Clark about this trail. "Emence quantity of falling timber." Several of the expedition's horses tumble down the hillside...
...mountain-warfare instructors. Galli was infantry and Fairchild artillery--as were Lewis and Clark, respectively. Soon we are skirting 10-ft. snowdrifts, now and again postholing into a soft patch up to our thighs. By midday we crest the ridgeline, where we can start to make out the vast wild expanse that stretches away on all sides. To our north are 1.8 million acres of the Clearwater National Forest, to the south are 1.3 million acres of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness area. The skies have cleared, and our cheeks redden from the sun bouncing off the snow. We traverse endless...
...sees the two captains as models of diplomacy. "There's much to be learned from how people conducted themselves a long time ago," he says. For the Nez Perce, it is about respect--respect for other people, respect for the landscape. That is the lesson of the Lolo Trail: wild, rugged, steep, remote, it too commands our respect...
...fortunate enough to live in one of the last five scraps of country in the Lower 48 that are still wild enough to support even a vestigial population of grizzlies. In the U.S., the great bear has been reduced to near prisoner status, surviving only for certain in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem (anywhere from 200 to 600 bears); the Northern Continental Divide of Montana (400 to 500); the Selkirk population in northern Idaho (30 to 40); an enclave in northern Washington State; and, most imperiled, Montana's Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem, where perhaps two dozen survive. Lewis and Clark passed near...
...these particular 100 acres this spring, I am unable to find any certain tracks. The forest rings with health: soft, undisturbed duff underfoot, soil of the centuries carpeted with trillium, wild violets, mushrooms, lupine, ancient lichens and mosses--an outrageous diversity that is so rare elsewhere in the West. Like some lost explorer, I make little maps on scraps of paper about what I find, and I wonder what the future will bring. In Backtracking, Long quotes a wildlife biologist on the future of the bear in Montana: "Eighty years ago, there were grizzlies leaving their tracks on the beaches...