It has been a rough 5 days from East Glacier to the benchmark ranch hiking through the Bob Marshal Wildernis and hitching to Augusta for a well earned night on a Motel bed.

My new hiking partner Ninja is also from Hamburg in Germany and by funny coincidence, she knows an old school friend of mine, that I hiked on the AT with. We are currently planning to hike a longer section as a group.

The Bob Marshal Wildernis can be very beautiful – if the weather allows for views. Bit we had quite a bit of unusual weather patterns for June, even in Montana, and were wearing more clothing layers for warmth than expected. At least we did not encounter any bears and managed to climb over two more mountain passes.

The start of the section gave us the first challenge as we had to climb a great number of fallen trees that were on the not maintained trail after an old forest fire caused them to fall down. At least we had the opportunity to warm up in an RV in the campground before that section were we boldly asked to come inside to cook out of the rain. The elderly couple let us poor hikers in and we even got a cup of red wine to up our spirit. Bit the lesson learned is to avoid any section that had a fire a while ago as this slowed our first two days down quite a bit.

Our next stop is Lincoln which is about 3 days away once we are back on the trail, bit getting back is a tricky 30 mile hitch on a diet road so we might have to rely on the shuttle service of the motel.