I Took The Path Less Traveled By: Mount Rowe Aug 16, 2017

Well still tired from last weeks 5 day hike I figured I'd go for something a little closer to home. I had heard there were trail closures in Waterton and figured that Mt. Rowe was good to go. I later found out that the trail closures also included all off trail hiking as well...oops. It was kind of neat to have a helicopter spot us, circle us for a bit and then drop down and get out to tell us to go down. We initially had hoped to climb the ridge over to Lineham as well but that was thwarted by the Parks Officials...but that was OK we had already bagged one peak for the day. And I figure it is better to live by the rules and to obey them. So I had done this hike many years before and so we took the trail all the way up to the Upper Rowe Lake and then went around to the west side of the lake and headed up that ridge and gained the continental divide ridge and took it back all the way to the summit. Quite an easy hike, we actually had summitted in 2 hours and 30 minutes and the day was looking good to summit Lineham as well until the helicopter met us. Anyways great day, little hazy from the smoke but we'll have to get Lineham another time, which I'm sure we will.