Spend four days exploring Montana’s backcountry on this all-women backpacking adventure in the Beartooth Mountains! Beginners are encouraged to join, as your guide provides you with expert leadership, meals, cooking equipment, and can provide you with tents and sleeping bags. This trip is all about getting to a gorgeous spot—Timberline Lake—and reset there. Morning and evening yoga practices, lymphatic drainage self massage, journaling prompts and mindful conversation and connections are to be expected! You will also learn important outdoor skills (such as Leave No Trace as well as local geology and history) and even spot exciting wildlife, such as moose, deer, elk, or marmots! Ready for a journey full of serenity and peacefulness of the great outdoors?
We will start our journey at the Timberline trailhead at 7,700 ft at 8am. We will hike in a forested area next to Timberline Creek with great views of the valley floor. We will reach Timberline Lake, set up our camp, and spend the night there.
Distance: 4 miles / 6.4 km
Elevation gain: 2,000 ft / 610 m
Meals: Dinner
We will go for a day hike in the area with a potential summit of North Silver Run. You can expect gorgeous views of the Silver Run moraines and the surrounding mountains. Yoga and mindfulness lessons on the way!
Meals: Breakfast and dinner
For our last day on the trek, we will hike from Timberline Lake back to the trailhead.
Elevation loss: 2,000 ft / 610 m
Meals: Breakfast
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Add-ons:
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This all-women Beartooth Mountains backpacking adventure has several different options for a backpacking trip, but in general, decent shape is certainly required. Below you will find a breakdown of trails, their distances, and required fitness levels.
West Fork Loop Trail
Mystic Lake Trail
Timberline Lake Trail
If you feel like carrying a heavy backpack would be too exhausting for you, your guides have the option of hiring a porter who would carry it for you. If you’re interested, let us know.
Here’s a list of the equipment you need to bring:
Dress comfortably and for the weather in clothes you can move in. We suggest bringing clothing appropriate for the season. Layers are best and don’t wear jeans.
Indeed you can! You can rent a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, and a backpack with your guides. You can register your interest upon checkout.
Group sizes and prices:
Beartooth Mountains backpacking can be arranged for larger groups. Contact us to make arrangements.
Min. age requirements:
If your group has hikers under the age of 18, contact us prior to booking to make arrangements.
To get to Red Lodge, Montana, the starting point of your all-women backpacking trip, it’s best to fly into Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN) and Billings Logan International Airport (BIL). It takes one to two hours to reach Red Lodge from these two airports by car. There’s also the option of flying into Jackson Hole Airport (JAC), from which there’s a 5-hour drive to Red Lodge.
Regardless of the trail you choose, you will meet your guide a day prior to Day 1 of the trip in Red Lodge. There will be a mandatory gear check at 4pm, ensuring that you’ve got everything necessary for the adventure ahead!
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