Lincoln to Helena

Rick at the Sportsman Motel was kind enough to drive us back to Rogers Pass in the Hiker Hauler along with John(Retro) and Marcy, our coincidental hikeing companions. He even stopped off at the ranger station for us to get a look at the sencond biggest grizzly in the lower 48 and on top of that, he was kind enogh to cache some water for us down at the next pass since this section was especially dry. We comencenced with a beautiful twelve-mile ridge walk, bluebird day. Next morning was up and easy terrain to Stemple Pass, we had lunch at a picnic table and found a garbage can in the pit toilet! Its the small things. Got a nice view when we pick the climb of the designated route instead of an alternate. Had dinner outside the ruins of some prospector cabins from the last century. next came a strenuous but senic walk along the escarpment of Nevada and Black Mountains, met an Austrian couple finishing up their northbound journey on horseback, they planned on continuing into Canada next year. Made it almost a twenty mile day after pushing through a recreation area and shocking a passerby with the origin of our journey. Roadwalked our way into rolling hills of golden grass and met Jeff from Cleveland and his dogs. He was happy enough to drive us into Helena and awe we happy enough to go with him even though we technically had five more miles. He drove us to two hotels and called a third before delivering us to the Budget Inn right downtown, Thanks Jeff. Spent the rest of sunday hiding out from the 90 degree heat and feeding our faces. Microbrews, philosophy and cable tv.