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Back Trail to Windfall Trails Through Bitter Root Pass
A Missoula Idaho travelogue recalls old miner trails in the Bitter Root range. The author walks Sunrise pass to Windfall amid cedar groves, seeing Sunrise City remnants, Perkins’s washing camp, and the Windfall diggings while noting enduring prospecting life and scenic grandeur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canyon
Sunset Pass
Montana
Bear Gulch
Cedar Creek
California Gulch
Oregon
Hungry Hollow
Deep Creek
Trout Creek
Ohio
Missoula County
Bitter Root Mountains
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Lorimer
Senate
Mexico
Wolgast
Diaz
Deep
Sunrise
Ohio Gulch
A. M. Stevens
Windfall
Missoula
Quartz
Dickson's
Coulee
Sunrise Creek
Perkins
California
Idaho
Louis Barrette
Sunrise Pass
Meadow Creek
Stevens
Sunrise City
Illinois Peak
Sunrise Mountain
Bitter Root Range
Tenderfoot
Steve
Old Sunrise City
New York
Washington
Dr. Eddy
Adam Thielen
Landowner Mountain
Packer
Grand
Maine Woods