Back in the 70’s my father and I used to ride trail cycles over white rock pass and drop into Badger Cabin. I haven’t been all the way back into that area since then. This is a popular stop for CDT hikers that often camp on the cabin porch even though the area is off limits to public use. Tanner, Freckles and I rode in on the South Fork of Two Medicine trail planning to do some volunteer trail clearing and maybe make it back to all the way to Badger. We got a very late start around 2:30 and were fortunate that we met another party that had cleared the trail about 1/2 way. As it was, I exhausted both batteries for my electric chain saw and finished cutting just the impassable deadfall with my silky hand saw. We didn’t arrive at Badger till well after 9 and were treated to a beautiful moonlight evening.

The evening ride coming into the area was gorgeous also.

The early morning sunrise didn’t disappoint either

This was just a quick overnight trip to see the area again and so we headed out in the morning. We weren’t 1/2 mile up the trail when I spotted a huge grizzly on the open side hill. We made our presence known and the bear elected to scamper up the hill rather than challenge us. Huge sigh of relief as we did not wish to reverse our route or have a serious encounter with this big boy.

As there were no Forest Service personal in the area we took liberty and camped inside the fenced area. Payback for trail clearing?