Montana
  Greetings from First Rock Lake, Rocky Fork of the Yellowstone River. This is what the locals call what the maps try to say is Keyser Brown Lake on the Lake Fork of Rock Creek, in the Beartooths.  Generally, mountains, streams and sky are fairly indifferent to such concerns. Access this particular area through the neat little main street town of Red Lodge.
Montana is a wonderful backpacker’s pantry. The Beartooths, adjacent to and northeast of Yellowstone, feature huge plateaus over 10,000 feet. Moose are everywhere, traverses fairly easy. The best areas probably come in from the north and east.
In Montana you can find little pocket ranges all over her west, near and on both sides of the continental divide. We can recommend the Bitterroots, of Lewis and Clark fame, the Pintlers (spend the night in Phillipsburg on your way home), the Spanish Peaks in the Madison Range, the East Pioneers, and the Cabinets. These mountains almost have a rain forest character. You will walk up rugged steep pitches in deep woods most of the time. Lush bottoms are too thick to see through for the most part. Meadows are few, head for lakes.
Southeast of the Glacier National park, try the so named Bob Marshall wilderness for long walks in grizzly bear country, in the Rocky Mountain Front. Slip up the west fork of the Sun River maybe, and base at Indian Point. From here you can make easy day hikes to the Chinese Wall or lonely Pearl Basin.
We have threatened to retire to Missoula for years.