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330 with Many Trail Miles Covered in 1971, This List Does Not Include All Trips. 3 January: Pat, Jane, Terence, and I Skied to F 330 Appendix 1. 1971 Ski and hiking trips With many trail miles covered in 1971, this list does not include all trips. 3 January: Pat, Jane, Terence, and I skied to Fielding Patrol Cabin. The temperature was minus 5° F and the cold snow made for excellent skiing on green wax. Snow depth at the cabin was 36 inches. We noted snowshoe hare, red squirrel, and pine marten tracks on the trail. We found the cabin’s north window wide open. The cabin had been broken into. All of the food in the cupboard was frozen. We closed the window and secured it. 5-6 January: Art Sedlack and 1 skied to Logan Creek Patrol Cabin (overnight), for the purpose of making the Winter Waterfowl Count in Upper McDonald Creek. The temperature was minus 10° F when we left West Glacier. There were spectacular ice formations in the creek, especially at the falls. Four inches of new snow made for good skiing, although there was a breakable crust underneath the new snow. Snow depth at the cabin was 48 inches on the snow stake when we arrived. Six inches of snow fell overnight. During our return trip, we counted an amazing number of dippers (19) along Upper McDonald Creek, also 10 common mergansers, two female goldeneye(Bucephala sp.), and one pygmy owl. We saw fresh tracks of lynx, marten, snowshoe hare, moose, and elk. 14-15 January: Dave Shea and I waded the Middle Fork and skied (carried snowshoes just in case) to Harrison Lake Patrol Cabin; we were breaking two feet of new snow on top of three foot base on the trail to the lake. Skied up the lake—the ice was mushy. The warm daytime temperature made the snow sticky and difficult skiing. We experimented with waxes, but found no good recipe. There were moose tracks on the lake. We spent the night in the cabin. On the morning of the 15th, the temperature outside the cabin was 15° F. 3 February: Dave Shea, Art Sedlack, and I skied the Autumn Creek Loop, starting from Marias Pass. Near the end of the route, the trail crosses the Burlington-Northern Railroad lines. This of course required taking off skis and carrying them across the tracks. On this trip, as we approached the tracks, a freight was in view coming uphill toward the crossing. We all quickly loosened bindings, grabbed our skis and started across, I had trouble with a binding, so I was a bit behind Dave and Art, and started to run across the tracks. I stumbled on the first rail and fell on my face on the second rail, splitting my lip. The train wasn’t THAT close and I had plenty of time to pick myself up and get off the tracks. A trip to Kalispell to have Dr. Gould sew my lip together ended the otherwise great trip in fine sliding snow. 8 February: Dave Shea and I skied to Apgar Lookout. Four to five feet of snow on trail. Quoting from my log book entry: “Fabulous weather—clear and all peaks visible. Windy enough on top to make it chilly. Lots of deer tracks around lookout. Snow a bit sticky but good going. A few elk tracks on trail.” Lake McDonald was entirely frozen over. 9 February: Dave Shea, Art Sedlack, and I skied to Fielding Patrol Cabin on a day trip. Partly cloudy, about 15 ° F, 43 inches snow on the stake. We noted: “Fine day. Snow good, cabin in good order. Fresh coyote and lynx tracks near cabin.” 15 February: Pat, Dave Shea, Roberta Seibel and I skied to Fish Lake south of Lake McDonald, going up the old trail from west of Snyder Creek. Hard-packed snow, but surface soft and traveling good. Climb not bad. Used no climbers on my skis. Pat and Roberta used one climber each; Dave walked. Jackson Creek crossing a bit of trouble. We hacked snow off the log bridge and crossed on it. Sprague Creek was iced- and snowed-over so we could just ski across it. There were moose tracks near Fish Lake: The lake was frozen with only a small amount of open water at outlet end. We had lunch at the lake. Took trail down from Fish Lake to Sperry Chalet Trail. Snow conditions on that trail were very icy and treacherous. Before reaching the junction, the trail is within dense forest and descends rather abruptly into the drainage of Snyder Creek. We were essentially skiing on ice and it was difficult to control speed, even though we were “riding” our ski poles. Dave lost control and lurched to one side of the trail; his head and shoulder grazed a large tree as he zipped by it; then he crashed in the trail. When I got to him, there was blood streaming down the side of his head. Quoting from my log book: “Dave smashed into a tree about 100 yards above the Snyder Creek crossing. Fie 331 tore ear half off and jammed shoulder.” We stopped the prolific bleeding at Dave’s nearly severed ear with a compress and bandaged his ear to his head. Dave was shaken, seeing double, and having difficulty with balance. Fortunately he was able to walk on top of the icy snow, trying to maintain his balance with his ski poles. We crossed Snyder Creek on a snow- covered log. Dave left his skis at the Mt. Brown Trail Junction. I walked and carried my skis. We made it down to the car, at Lake McDonald Lodge, and headed to Kalispell for another visit with Dr. Gould. Dr. Gould expertly sewed Dave’s ear back together and found that he had only a mild concussion, so we were able to take him home. Later in the day I walked back up the trail and retrieved Dave’s skis. The accident occurred on Snyder Ridge, but we now refer to it as the infamous “Ear Ridge.” 26 February: Skied, with son Kerry and his friend Tim Dustin, to Fielding Patrol Cabin, where we spent the night. Both boys were Scouts and needed an outdoors adventure of this type to fulfill their Webelos requirements. The cabin log book entries for that trip: “The snow stake read 43 inches, with 8—10 inches of new powder. Temperature was 25-30° F, under partly sunny skies. Tracks on the trail were snowshoe hare, red squirrel, mouse, and Bigfoot (identified by Kerry and Tim). We re-stacked the woodpile and cleaned the porch. On the 27th, we chopped wood, cut fuzz sticks, and cleaned the cabin. Snow flurries in the morning, but some sun shining through. Zero0 F last night, 18° F at 10:00 A.M. Headed out to Highway 2 at 10:15 A.M.” 9 March: Dave Shea, Art Sedlack, and I skied from Walton to the Park Creek Trail,Vi and 1 miles up that trail. On the way back, we noted lynx tracksVi miles 1 from Walton (one print was on top of the ski track we had left 30 minutes previously). 12 March: Dave Shea and I waded the Middle Fork (an inch to spare on the hip boots) and skied to the Nyack Ranger Station. There was considerable evidence of lion activity around the buildings. We then skied about a mile up the Nyack Creek Trail and a mile up the Three Tops Fire Trail. 15-16 March: Dave Shea and I waded the Middle Fork (6 inches to spare on the hip boots) and then skied to Lower Park Creek Patrol Cabin. We noted elk and moose tracks in the meadow near the cabin and lynx, snowshoe hare, and red squirrel tracks on the trail. Cabin log noted: “About 4 feet of snow on ground, more falling this evening. Temperature 27° F. In the afternoon, we skied two miles above the cabin, then back to the cabin for the night. That night, we spent several hours on a favorite pastime, a map feature identification “contest.” We took turns describing the location of a specific map feature (e.g., a peak, creek, or lake); then the “listener” was expected to provide the name of the feature. We had enjoyed the “game” and it was a good way to learn the names and locations of the terrestrial and aquatic features of the Park. On the ski back to the Middle Fork on the 16th, we noted lynx tracks on top of yesterday’s ski tracks. 18 March: Art Sedlack and I waded the Middle Fork (6 inches to spare on the hip boots) and then skied to Harrison Lake. Snow hard packed but some loose snow on top. Traveling very good. Bear tracks (a few days old) aboutVi mile west of lake, on the trail. We found bear hair which the bear had rubbed off on a tree along the trail. One bull elk at the lake. Lake appeared to be all ice and snow covered, but we went through to shallow water at one point. Lion and coyote tracks on trail. Lynx tracks on top of our ski tracks when we skied back to the Middle Fork. 24-27 March: Dave Shea, Tom Watson, Dave Downey, Loren Kreck and I did a ski patrol to Belly River Ranger Station. We drove to the point where the Alberta oil well road (the well operation was very odoriferous) crosses the Chief Mountain Customs Road. From there we skied. We noted a considerable amount of beaver activity in the first half mile south of the International Boundary.
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