teapot57 wrote:Hi Pete,
Looks like a great hike! Those grizzly diggings were impressive. Would be interesting to learn more about that camouflaged building. Thanks for showing us a bit of this unique area!
Tina
Hey Tina:
Mt Hefty
is a good hike. Having now done both Thoma Lookout and Mt. Hefty.
I would recommend doing Mt Hefty over Thoma Lookout if I could only do one if---views/vistas were your main interest.
Thoma Lookout would be my choice if I had a bucket list of "lookouts" I wanted to visit, or maybe chat with the lookout person, or just a historical interest in Thoma and other lookouts.
They are both good. And personally, I would hike to Thoma the route we used for Hefty....just make a right at the junction of TR18 and TR15.
Yeah, the bear(s) had worked that ridge line pretty well. You'll see some of that in the video when I get it done.
Digging is what the bear I saw on the Canadian side was doing on that ridge.
I think that installation is a relay station for the Border Patrol/Homeland Security "sensors" located in the border "cut line".
There are antennae(antennas) ? that pickup sensor data from the cut line and then that directional microwave "dish" that is pointed south, relays it to the Border Patrol Office in Whitefish. Whitefish is just a few degrees east of due south from Hefty.
That facility has an
unimpeded "view"(transparent to radio frequency energy) of the entire cut line from the Mt Hefty location all the way to Long Knife Mountain in GNP. Long Knife is north of Kintla Lake and on the border.
There won't be much going on in that cut line area that the the Border Patrol won't know about very quickly.
I wouldn't want to wander out into that cut line area; that could end up being an enormous hassle.
later and thanks Tina
pete