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Route: Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Traverse

Submitted by skisandtrees on Sun, 06/18/2023 - 07:06am
Location
Montana, US
Distance
64 mi
Vertical Gain
27,145 ft
Description

The route begins on the north end of the wilderness range near highway 2 and the Kootenai River.  We used the Grambauer Mountain Trail.  The route ends at the southern terminus of the wilderness range at Swamp Creek Trailhead.  We did our best to follow the backbone of the range.  We dipped out of the wilderness at Devils Club TH to both pick up supplies and alleviate difficult route finding between the “pinnacle peaks” and Bald Eagle Peak.

GPS Track
Final leg.gpx390.55 KB
Camp 1 to the col above the middle fork.gpx168.99 KB
Afternoon through tahoka and big cherry.gpx42.78 KB
Traverse leg 1.gpx446.61 KB
Day three… big cherry lake to rock lake.gpx338.49 KB

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Comments

EMILIE MORESHEAD
Tue, 08/01/2023 - 09:27pm

Solid work.  This isn't easy country to navigate!  Often big storms and very little 'beta' available on the area so you have to enter with a healthy sense of adventure or do your own reconnaissance!

EMILIE MORESHEAD
Sun, 11/26/2023 - 07:45am

@skisandtrees Hey, someone alerted me you were wondering who was in the headwaters of the middle fork skiing. I'm guessing that was us! We summited an unknown peak (that we named dragon cause on colored topi maps or looks like a dragon in a fwd swipe with its wings). Anyway, we did that on 4/11. Either someone else was in there too or our tracks stayed!