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In most seasons, the Lolo is passable only from July to mid-September. At the Lolo Pass (elev.: 5,233 ft.), the Forest Service is building a log cabin and a warming hut that will serve as a Lewis and Clark interpretive center when finished later this year.
We are now down to three: besides me, Fairchild and his army buddy Rich Galli, who met each other in Italy, where they were mountain-warfare instructors. Galli was infantry and Fairchild artillery--as were Lewis and Clark, respectively. Soon we are skirting 10-ft. snowdrifts, now and again postholing...
"Found great dificuelty in keeping it," wrote Clark on Sept. 16, "as in maney places the snow had entirely filled up the track." The expedition was having a miserable time. Clark wrote he was as "wet and as cold in every part as I ever was in my life." Lewis...
Our luck too is holding with the weather, although the snow keeps getting deeper. As we climb to Indian Post Office, the highest point on the trail at 7,033 ft., the drifts are 15 ft. and up. We have covered 13 miles in soft snow, and we barely have...
In the morning we push on, and shortly after noon we reach Howard Camp, where Fairchild draws water from the same Howard Creek that Lewis and Clark did. The sun and the altitude are making us light-headed. By late afternoon we have descended to Saddle Camp at 5,300...