Leaving Darby we saw many people on mountain bikes on the trail the first day. This first day was relatively flat. The second day we ran into many miles of burn blowdown and ran into a young lady thru hiking nobo.
Rainbow Pass.
Morning view from our campground.
Hiking into Anaconda. The day before this photo was taken we hiked over three mountain passes over 9,000′ in one day.
After we arrived in Anaconda “the Plan” fell apart. I was informed by the person in charge of the CDT permits that Glacier National Park was not going to open the backcountry campgrounds on the entire West side of the park due to closures by the Blackfeet reservation to the East of the park. Not being able to hike through Glacier made Edward and Max decide to not travel to Montana to join me and we made plans to hike Section K of the PCT from Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass instead. Anna left the trail in Anaconda and I was joined by my niece, Melissa, who was planning to hike from Anaconda to Highway 12 with me.
Lucy Ondo 