Packer Meadow Loop

Clearwater National Forest, Idaho and Lolo National Forest, Montana

With everyone back to work today it seemed a good day to head off and play in the snow at pass level. Took the skinny skies out for the first trip of the winter and found muscles that I have not used in a long time. Started on the Packer Meadow Loop and then took detours back and forth across the MT/ID border for several miles in untracked snow. When i wanted to get back onto the loop I had to make a challenging drop down to the trail. Only pictures I took today were of the ski tips about to go over the edge. After about a 50 foot steep section it was much more gradual. Still don't know how I stayed up but I did. Don't think I could do it twice in a row though.

When in the tracks from this past weekend near the beginning and end of the trip the snow was fast. Next trip on skies should be my 30+ year old skies. I just want to get on them one more time before they wind up on the wall as decorations.