Big Creek Hornets
This was the last pack trip of the season for the
Bitter Root Back Country Horsemen in their volunteer work for the U.S. Forest Service in the Bitter Root Valley of Montana. Part of our mission statement is to assist various government agencies to maintain trails in the backcountry. This year we had already done fifteen other summer pack trips for the U.S.F.S. trail crew, so this trip would be nothing new … or so I thought.
The trip is a long one, anyway — seventeen miles in and seventeen miles back out — that’s thirty-four miles to go over tough trails before darkness, and makes the job more dangerous.
The project was to pack the tools and camp up to the far end of Big Creek Lake, deep in the heart of the Bitterroot-Selway Wilderness and near the Montana- Idaho border. I had been informed that this project would be larger than most, in that the trail crew would be composed of five members rather than the usual three. Usually the plan is to take one pack mule per
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