There is some beautiful country located along the Lewis and Clark National Forest. 

Connie and I took a ride into the south fork of Two Medicine. This is a beautiful area and usually a fairly easy early season ride. You do ride along the creek bottom, so there are multiple crossings. 

This can be a very hot ride, but we were fortunate with a cool day with a nice breeze.

This is an area known for having quite a few grizzly bears. We didn’t see any, nor did we see any fresh tracks or scat. We did get to see a cow moose with her young calf feeding along the river. We made our presence known and let them move out of the area before preceding. We also saw a cow elk and lots of elk sign.

We were just out for a leisure ride and trail recon. At this time no trail work had been done, so we encountered 40+ down trees. We were able to ride around the obstructions, but did finally hit an area with substantial blowdown and had to give up at about 4.5 miles in. This area is not wilderness so chain saws are permitted and it won’t take long to cut these trees out.  There is a lot of snow in the higher elevations of the back country as you can see in these pictures. It’s going to be awhile before you are going to be able to access the passes.

We came back and had lunch by the creek before riding out

The views riding out are even more magnificent than those riding in.