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Swan Rangers Hike Peters Ridge and Lamoose!

View of Peters Ridge, Echo Lake and Flathead Lake from the Swan Crest! (Keith Hammer photos unless otherwise noted).

Thirteen Swan Rangers hiked the Peters Ridge Trail and cleared it of deadfall on Saturday, July 4, and five continued on to Lamoose Lake!

What better way to celebrate Independence Day than a hike in our treasured public lands?

Click here for a map of the Peters Ridge Trail.

 

The Swan Rangers atop the Swan Crest!

 

While some plants are setting fruit, like this thimbleberry, many at higher elevations are still flowering . . .

 

. . . like these hairbells . . .

 

. . . penstemon . . . 

 

. . . showy daisy . . .

 

. . . and nodding onion!

 

An ugly motorcycle detour around a fallen tree on Alpine 7!

 

Lamoose Lake, with Hash Mountain in the distance, lacks the ice we've seen in it on July 4 in some years past!

 

Edward H. Boos photo (Denver Public Museum) of a Salish Joe Lamoose circa 1905-1907 - a likely descendent of Ignace Lamoose, an Iroquois who came west with the fur trade and married into the Salish tribe in the Bitterroot about 1820, then beginning in 1835, made two trips to St. Louis attempting to bring a Jesuit priest to the Bitterroot and Flathead valleys.

 

The Swan Rangers meet every Saturday at the Echo Lake Cafe for breakfast at 7:30, leaving at 8:30 for a partial day outing in the northern Swan Mountains and foothills, seldom hiking as far as St. Louis!

They carpool from the Swan River School parking lot next to the Cafe.

When hiking in bear country, remember to carry bear spray and avoid the 3-D's: dawn, dusk, and darkness.

Everyone is welcome!


This article published on July 04, 2015 • [Permalink]