The section from Helena to Anaconda has been relatively easy as we were able to walk quite a few forest roads and make our own route towards Anaconda. We are finally meeting more hikers, actually yesterday while doing the resupply at the grocery store we met a group of hikers that I already saw and talked to in Glacier NP.
The day before Anaconda we stopped at a farm where you could camp as the section was through a long stretch of private land. There we met quite a character – an older man called Boston, a funny man living in a trailer on a ranch that started the travellers roost to help out hikers. He made us cowboy coffee in the morning and showed me his gun collection, so I got the full redneck treatment which I enjoyed.
Ninjas joints are not very happy walking on the highway bit at least the new shoes seem to work in terms of avoiding blisters. This means we will have to manage our way out of Anaconda which is another 12 miles of highway walking.
We will do a short trip to the Post office this morning and then head out towards wisdom, which will be a section of about 100 miles. We are thinking 4 days but the section will go back into higher elevation so we hope to not encounter too much snow.
