680. Wanda’s Wanda-rings: CDT - The Trail
West Yellowstone, MT
Relocated from CO to the Continental Divide Trail along the ID/MT border!

This box with a wonderful trail stamp carved by lionsmane of NM used to be at the Continental Divide Trail crossing near Willow Creek Pass in Colorado. However, only a couple of people visited over several years, so we decided to move it further north with us to another spot along the CDT west of Yellowstone where hopefully it will get more visitors over the next few years. So now, from West Yellowstone, MT, just drive about 10m west on route 20 to the MT/ID border, and find a large parking lot about a tenth of a mile or so down the gravel road to the south. On the east side of the parking lot is a large wooden Gallatin National Forest/Targhee Pass trailhead sign followed by small wooden CDT logo sign listing the elevation of the pass as 7072’, the trail number as 116 and the distance to Rea’s Pass as 13 miles. The actual CDT cuts in from the left about 35 steps up this short access trail, but you should go about 85 steps from that CDT logo sign to reach a slightly more open area in the forest (this point is about 18 steps past a spruce larger than most immediately trailside right). Now turn left off trail and go 10-12 steps at 345 degrees to a rusty broken old iron stove, then 3 steps further north to a chunk of bark under a small spruce immediately left of a very splintered crumbled rotting log. The box is tucked under bark and a partial stump. Please re-hide the box carefully to keep it safe!

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