| "Bear grass along the Lolo Trail" shows the rare occurance of a full field of blooms. (photo by Steve F. Russell) | "Lolo Peak" as seen looking south from the Lolo Trail near Anderson Gulch where Lewis and Clark camped on Sept. 11, 1806. As they travelled westward up Lolo Creek, Clark remarks "...the mountains on the left high & Covered with Snow." (Photo by Carla Russell Behrens) |
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| "Smoking Place on the Lolo Trail" is a well-know location made famous by the Corps of Discovery. It was here on June 27, 1806 that the Party and their Nez Perce guides stopped to smoke the pipe. Clark notes in his journal "...we halted by the request of the Guides a fiew minits on an ellevated point and Smoked a pipe. on this eminance the nativs have raised a conic mount of stons of 6 or 8 feet high and erected a pine pole of 15 feet long." (photo by Steve F. Russell) | "Hiking the Old Lolo Trail in the Rain" shows the steep, brushy hillsides traversed by the original Northern Nez Perces Trail. The Corps of Discovery travelled this exact same trail tread in 1805 on their westward journey over the Bitterroot Mountains. (photo by Steve F. Russell) |
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| "The Lolo Divide Road" is a is a single-lane dirt road that parallels the Lolo Trail for over 90 miles. This road is closed by snow from the end of October until the middle of July. This view is one of the longest straight segments along the entire road. (photo by Steve F. Russell) | "Bald Mountain on the Old Lolo Trail" is a view of one of the most popular historical camping places in the western Bitterroot Mountains. In 1866, George Nicholson called this "A good place to rest." (photo by Steve F. Russell) |
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| "The Clearwater River" is a downriver view of the place where the "old gold road" crossed the river as it led from Lewiston to Pierce, Idaho in 1866. (photo by Steve F. Russell) | "Lolo Trail in the Morning Sun" shows the braid of trail tread that still exists on the top of some of the ridges in the Bitterroot Mountains. (photo by Steve F. Russell) |
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