Stoked because I'm starting plans for another backpacking trip across the Beartooth range in SW Montana. Last year I went with one friend and we took a super gnarly route straight across the most rugged part of the range with 60-70lb packs. After a few costly miscalculations, bad weather, and almost dying on a glacier I don't think I will be taking that route again!
Two years ago I went to fish at Lower Aero Lake (probaby the first place I'll go again) and happened to hit the cutthroat spawn in the tributary creek. Imagine a 6-12" deep, 15' wide creek that has about 800-1,000 fish in the first 150' and that's what I did for two days. The smallest one I caught was 17", and the biggest was this fatty 22" female:
I think I'm going to put more of a fishing emphasis on this one because my knee still isn't 100%, so I might traverse a plateau and fish about 20-30 different lakes over the course of a week or so. But I doubt I'll be able to find another person dumb enough to join me, which is fine because I love this place more than anywhere else (except maybe the tundra in northern Canada) and will have all the fish to myself! I also won't have friends complaining about the time I tried to kill them either, which will be nice.
