{"id":618,"date":"2016-08-27T04:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T04:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/?p=618"},"modified":"2017-06-25T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T21:37:36","slug":"into-anaconda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/2016\/08\/27\/into-anaconda\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 27 Into ANACONDA"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUMMARY:\u00a0 <\/strong>It didn’t take too long to finish our walk down Storm Lake Road to reach Hwy 1. Wow, are we glad we went that way\u2014there was a trail alternate that some hikers took\u2014the trail disappeared and they had to bushwhack.<\/p>\n

It was a cool morning with very spectacular clouds, and as we walked along the highway, there were plenty of interesting things to look at. The best one to me was at a fancy “horse place” where a whole lot of riders looked like they were practicing for something.<\/p>\n

We reached Anaconda a little after 1:00pm and headed for the post office, assuming their hours were the usual 10:00am-2:00pm. Nope. It was 9:00am to 1:00pm. So now we have to wait till Monday. We need the zero, so it’s for the best.<\/p>\n

DETAILS:\u00a0 <\/strong>Last night was pretty cold–that seems to be a trend now that we are in late August–but our ZPacks sleeping bags did a great job of keeping us warm.\u00a0 We figured we would have no problem making it to Anaconda today.<\/p>\n

So we continued the walk down Storm Lake Road (a pretty nice dirt road) out to Highway 1.\u00a0 Wow, are we glad we went this way.\u00a0 Later on, in Anaconda, the other hikers told us they went the “Ley way”, which soon disappeared and they had to bushwhack down a creek to reach the highway.\u00a0 Yuck.<\/p>\n

When we reached Highway 1, it was still pretty early, which meant that the traffic was minimal.\u00a0 But practically every car or pickup that came along was towing some kind of “toy”.\u00a0 Well, it’s Saturday, so that’s to be expected!\u00a0 As we walked along, we kept looking at the mountains.\u00a0 To the south were the Pintlers–big, pointy, rocky and impressive.\u00a0 To the north were some other mountains with amazing banded color layers of different colors of rock and many cliffs.\u00a0 Here and there were a few lone houses.<\/p>\n

Eventually we passed a large, very fancy “horse place” where a bunch of riders appeared to be practicing for a competition, where 2 riders at a time would race in an arena, doing figure-8’s around poles.\u00a0 I would love to have just hung out for awhile there to watch!<\/p>\n

As the miles went by, the traffic increased, and the high, gray peaks of the Pintlers were replaced by high, very steep, but forested hills.\u00a0 Just before noon we reached the outskirts of Anaconda and stopped at The Hofbrau for a great lunch (and to rest our very tired feet–walking by a highway is really tough on feet).\u00a0 We thought we had plenty of time to get to the post office, since usual standard Saturday hours are 10-2.<\/p>\n

Not in Anaconda.\u00a0 We reached the PO at 1:15ish, and it was closed already.\u00a0 Bummer!\u00a0 We were really disappointed.\u00a0 But I guess it’s for the best–we really are very tired.\u00a0 The Pintlers really wore us out.\u00a0 As soon as we got a motel room, Fixit took a shower and went to bed and just stayed there.\u00a0 Since there was no laundry available anywhere, I first washed all our socks and hung them up to dry, then lay down with a phone book to find us a church for tomorrow.<\/p>\n

At dinnertime, we wandered off down the street to a pizza place and discovered a whole crowd of CDT hikers were there.\u00a0 They had arrived very late yesterday, took a zero today and plan to do another zero tomorrow.\u00a0 Everybody is really tired.\u00a0 Several were planning to go to the movies tonight in the historic Anaconda Art Deco movie theater.\u00a0 We went back to the motel and just lay down (well, Fixit did, but I washed our hiking shirts first, and hung them up to dry).<\/p>\n

If you like historic old buildings (and I DO!) Anaconda is a fascinating place.\u00a0 Business-wise, though, it looks like it’s losing ground.\u00a0 I was told that the “real” town around here is Butte.\u00a0 If I were not so tired, I would love to just walk around and look at all the old buildings.\u00a0 But for now, it is good to just lie down.\u00a0 The motel is really nice–they provided us with fruit and yogurt, which we are very happy to get.\u00a0 Tomorrow, hooray, we get to go to church!\u00a0 From my searches in the phone book, we decided to go to the Assembly of God.\u00a0 Looking forward to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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