Summer in Montana

[WestKyHunt]

The difference between summer in the south and summer in the rocky mountain west becomes very apparent when you see that people are planning backpacking trips in July/August/ up there.

Truck camping for a night isn’t even happening down here during the summer.

No joke.
I'm in CO Springs this week. Yesterday was 94° and I barely broke a sweat.
Saturday at work before we left it was 86° and it felt hotter than Satan's left nut

 

[Shangobango]

No joke.
I'm in CO Springs this week. Yesterday was 94° and I barely broke a sweat.
Saturday at work before we left it was 86° and it felt hotter than Satan's left nut

Yup. It was 96 at home yesterday with a heat index of 108…

 

[marshman]

Hot even here on the Pacific coast - 93 degrees today and hotter tomorrow. My little buddy here comes to the sprinkler and hangs with me every night, the picture is not zoomed 5 feet away, he's pretty cool! Hot for him too; he drinks from the water droplets on the pepper cage.

 

[Brian in Montana]

I've been planning a little backpack through-hike over a part of the CDT in the Anaconda Pintlar Wilderness. This afternoon I walked out of work and realized I couldn't even see the outline of the Highlands from uptown Butte. I think I'm going to just scrap my plans. Why climb mountains when you can't even see them? It's kind of depressing really.

I went ahead and did it. I'm glad I did. I got pretty hot during the day, but the smoke was, I don't know, let's say less bad west of the divide. I covered 28 miles in 3 days of hiking. Oddly saw no wildlife, but got some great pics along the way.

 

[Talk2elk]

That is awesome Brian, great pics.