69 Journal R.E. Johnson 1968 Aug 10 Missoula to Trapper Peak, Montana route up Levene & Troy creeks to the trail head and then loaded my pack & hiked up the trail toward Trapper Peak. I didn't get on the trail until 4:50PM. The trail starts off as if it were going to [illegible] do all the climbing in the first mile (or is it that I'm just broad that out of shape?). It ascends up a ridge, gradually passing beyond Lodgepole pine into White-bark pine. The trees become shorter, the stands more open, Red Heather becomes common, & the trail becomes less distinct so that one must follow red &/or blue flagging on trees. Finally the trail breaks into an open alpine slope of crushed & broken rock & sparse vegetation. I crested the ridge which runs cast from Trapper Peak at the upper (western) edge of the krumholz & I left my pack there. I then hiked the ridge west over one summit, down of Trapper Ph. & up again to the true summit where as the south side of this ridge was a gradually slope with low trees, he north face was vertical with considerable snow below. North below where I left my pack is Gem & Middle lakes. Just south further east, of this is an unnamed lake to Baker Lake. A up the north face to beautiful basin. Snow reaches the ridge top near this spot & at a number of other locations to the west toward Trapper Peak. Another lake could be seen north of the summit of Trapper Ph. Water Pipits were occasionally heard (not abundant) on the open