Bitterroot National Forest, Idaho
June 7-9, 2025
Without much advance. planning, we look at the map each day for forests, bike trails and sometimes hot springs. Our map is a 2010 National Geographic Road Atlas (remember them?) given to us by Olivia before our last long trip, The Voyage of the Tramper, in 2012.
Our truly lovely host at the O’Hara campsite in far western Mountain Montana recommended a place called Warm Springs, farther into the Bitterroot Wilderness along the Lochsa River. We found it at the end of a two mile hike through the woods.
The river was at the bottom of the warm springs. The river was very cold, all I could manage there was a foot dip and some splashing. Such a beautiful place and so isolated from the world.
Our campsite later that day was on the Selway Meadows Creek.
Jane
The Voyage of the Tramper 
Please carry a lot of Bear Spray in Montana!
It’s good to be you two!