Sunday, Monday July 23, 24, 2017 Start Continental Divide Trail
Doing the Continental Divide
Yesterday we broke camp and were heading to Eureka Montana about fifty miles away along this lake.
The town of Eureka
This was the view as we approached Eureka.
Meeting up with Dennis and Cheryl
We used the phone to contact the other party that we were going with and met at the town park here in Eureka.
Dennis and Cheryl joined us with their jeep.
We did some shopping and gassed up. Dennis and Cheryl stayed at a motel and we headed for the forest to find a camp spot for the night.
Camped for the night
We camped in this spot by a creek.
Starting the trip
Dennis and Cheryl joined as in the morning and we headed for the border for a picture to start the Continental Divide trip.
Eating dust
We had to drive a ways down some forest roads. I was picking up the rear so I ate dust all day.
We went up this road too, we traveled several forest roads.
Border photo
Here we are lined up at the Canadian border. My van, Cheryl and Dennis and Patti and Marty.
We will be following the bicycle route most of the way except where the route is too narrow for our rigs in a few places.
We drove through forest roads most of the day going past this lake up in the mountains.
Directions
We had to stop often to look at the maps and sometimes we went in the wrong direction, but that’s exploring.
Marty’s van needs a muffler
We came down out of the mountains to get a new muffler for Marty’s van at Kalispell.
His old muffler had fallen apart so he did need a new one. It took about an hour.
Looking for a camp spot for the night
From there we headed out to find a camp along the route we were taking and went out this valley.
We were having a hard time finding a camp spot along the road and finally settled for this spot in the wild flowers.
That was pretty much our day for a good one. Tomorrow we will continue down the trail.
That’s it.