I’m starting this section at mile 333.
I woke before sunrise in my cow shit palace with a dry tent. I hoped this portended a great day was ahead. I packed up and waited for the others to rise. I made hot coffee while I waited.
Eventually I hiked the .4 miles to the spring. It was our first cow trough spring. Water came out clear from a pipe.
The weather was cold, cloudy and windy.
We winded around hills on fairly level dirt road. Sometimes we encountered people driving by. At one point I thought I heard a motorcycle race in the woods but it was cattle screaming. When we encountered the cowboys they said they had just moved all the cattle and they were trying to find their babies after the move. There were indeed babies running around.
The road went on forever and we missed the junction with the trail. We continued to a location where a small segment of trail or road connected back to the trail. It looked atrocious. We stopped to rest before attempting it.
Near the end of the day the trail changed. First there were beautiful meadows. Then there were aspens. Then there was an old rail structure. Then the trail did it’s straight up climbing and I thought I wouldn’t make it. Every day all day I hike as fast as I can. I just ran out of the ability and grinded slowly at the hill. At the top were cell towers. We followed a dirt road and camped at a turn in the road. There was only a short distance to go in the morning to the highway where we can hitchhike to Helena.
It did not rain or thunderstorm today.
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