Another beautiful day. We got moving by 630 and were back on the official CDT by 10. It was a little boggy but the trail was easy. At the CDT we ran into another ranger and he suggested we take the spotted bear alternate since the main CDT was a big burned section.
It was also time for us to enter The Bob (marshallwilderness). There were all kinds of rumors about The Bob, the problem grizzlies from all over the country were dropped off there, the place was so wild it was like jurassic park, Bob Marshall still lived there as a wild mountain man with his family. Turns out most of that was false. It is the biggest wilderness area outside Alaska but they don't take problem grizzlies there since there is no way to get them there. It's actually one of the least dense populations of grizzlies in the region. The trail was in better shape than the back country of Glacier, but the wolf tracks are huge. I haven't seen Marshall yet but I'd like to shake his hands if I do. What The Bob is, is beautiful. Everywhere I look is another amazing sight.
We hiked until 9 pm to get halfway up a pass. We aren't expecting bad snow but since I'm the only one still carrying my snow gear I wanted to do the pass earlier when is safer. We ended up camping in a dry lake which only had two little puddles in them. Turns out all the mosquitoes in the lake were now concentrated in those two puddles. It was really fun messing with them.
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