Day: 140
Date: Monday, 23 September 2024
Start: North Badger Creek
Finish: East Glacier Park , MT
Daily Kilometres: 39.7
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos
Total Kilometres: 4089.3
Weather: Cool all day. Overcast in the morning and mostly sunny in the afternoon with a strong wind.
Accommodation: Motel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Pop tarts/Muesli
Lunch: Pop tarts/Trail mix
Dinner: Nachos, icecream.
Aches: Dave - very tired and the usual niggles; Julie - nothing reported.
Highlight: Reaching East Glacier Park, our last resupply town on the trail before we reach Canada. A bonus was getting here a day early so that we have two days off before our last five days on the trail.
Lowlight: Nothing in particular.
Pictures: Click here
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
The alarm went off at 3am and we were hiking by 4am on a cool dry morning, quite a contrast to yesterday's cold and frost. Our tent was dry when we packed up and the creeks we had to cross were rock-hoppable, at least until the sun rose.
Later in the morning, as we followed Two Medicine River downstream on a trail that crossed it multiple times, the rock-hoppability became more challenging though, Dave, who has Goretex boots, managed to keep his feet dry …. unlike Julie .... not amused.
The reason for the early start today was to cover the 40km to East Glacier Park, where we had a motel booked, by a reasonable time. Despite hiking in the dark by headlamp for the first three hours, we made good time, covering 12km, and had breakfast as dawn broke.
Between breakfast and lunch we covered another 12km, mostly following Two Medicine River through a lovely valley populated with many autumnal deciduous trees backed by partially pine-forested mountains.
We had our lunch break at a trailhead on Highway 2 across.from the jagged peaks of Glacier National Park. It was windy and cold, despite the sun and we didn't dally.
Our last 16km of the day was a roadwalk down Hwy 2, which was quite busy, but the mountain scenery was good. We arrived in the tiny town of East Glacier.Park, with its impressive Amtrak station on the elevated railway through town, around 3:15pm and.checked into the motel. Dave was very tired, but happy to have made it, especially with the prospect of two days off now before our last five days on the trail.
In town, we met some other CDT hikers we had last seen in Augusta who are planning to leave tomorrow. Suddenly, there seem to be more hikers around.
Later, we had dinner at a Mexican restaurant around the corner and will have an early night.
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