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...BROKE! We can't afford to fight terrorism, fund our occupation in Iraq, pay for increased medicare drug costs AND foot the bill for flying to the moon. Perhaps if we cut all of our taxes to zero, we might be able to afford it. Cal Lewis Lolo, Mont...
...Powell Ranger Station is built near the old campsite. Joni Packard, the ranger in charge, wonders why anyone would want to cross the Lolo in this weather. "The snowpack is 120% of normal, and the temperatures we are seeing now are...unusual," she says. The rangers have not been up in the high country since last fall. On our next morning we start hiking up the Wendover Ridge, the route that Toby eventually recovered. The narrow trail leads through cedars and Douglas firs, and we pass clumps of bear grass, huckleberry bushes, dogtooth violets and carpets of wild strawberry plants...
There are some bare patches on the southern slope, and white phlox flowers are already in bloom. Bees are at work on them. The season is short here; by September the snow will start again. The window of survival is very narrow on the Lolo. It nearly slammed shut on Lewis and Clark. We add a few more rocks to the cairns and take our leave...
...Place, he sees the two captains as models of diplomacy. "There's much to be learned from how people conducted themselves a long time ago," he says. For the Nez Perce, it is about respect--respect for other people, respect for the landscape. That is the lesson of the Lolo Trail: wild, rugged, steep, remote, it too commands our respect...
...journalists, we have a special fondness for the Lewis and Clark story, perhaps because they were such good journalists, writing down nearly 1 million words. In retracing their steps, we had plenty of our own adventures. Los Angeles bureau chief Terry McCarthy hiked the treacherous Lolo Trail in Idaho, where he navigated 12-ft. snowdrifts in June. National correspondent Margot Roosevelt found herself in a Sioux sweat-lodge ceremony, where a tribe member said with a smile, "You're supposed to pray, even if it's to get the hell out of here." Photographer Jose Azel spent 25 nights...