BIOLOGICAL RECONNOISSANCE AT FLATHEAD LAKE. 165 
tially buried by drifts. Camp may be made at the end of the wagon 
road at Schultz’s where there is water and pasture. 
From the lower end of Rost lake a trail leads through the timber to 
the mountain side, evidently a game and huckleberry trail. At 
the base of the mountain it thins out and finally disappears. The trail 
may be found by following the wagon road to the first house on the east 
side. Cross the little meadow toward the mountain and the trail may be 
seen leading off into the woods. When it forks take the right hand fork. 
The mountain slope has no trail. On the canyon side it is very bad going, 
The route up over the summit of Haystack is preferable to the trip up the 
canyon. Silloway peak is the bald mountain east of the first summit, 
which is Haystack. Craig mountain is across the canyon south from 
Haystack. Arctomys is next southeast of Silloway, connected with Sil- 
loway and Craig mountains by low passes. 
By passing up the east side of the lake to the second cabin another 
trail may be found. This trail leads through the woods to the pass be- 
tween the southern or pointed peak of Haystack and the next one north. 
Hopkins, and over or through this pass to Silloway peak. 
At the upper end of Rost lake on the west is a cabin. From this center 
several trails lead out. The main trail leads into the timber north, and 
by blazes may be followed to Shultz’s cabin, where the Aeneas or Black- 
foot trail is to be taken. About fifteen minutes walk after leaving the 
cabin brings one to a fork with a branch trail leading to the right. This 
branch goes to a series of bear traps. Farther on a branch to the left 
takes one up to the very foot of Haystack to trapper’s cabin. By consult- 
ing Fig. 3, page 148, the above details may be easily made out. 
At the foot of Swan lake if one has a wagon and wishes to go far- 
ther he must leave it. A well worn trail for pack horses may be followed 
up the east side of the lake. Or one may take a boat up the lake about 
twelve miles and then take the trail. This trail is kept open by forest 
rangers, and leads up Swan river to the divide between it and the Big 
Blackfoot, and down this to any point along the river. 
In winter when the snow is deep and snowshoes are used the pass- 
age to the South Fork country is up Fulton creek and through the low 
pass between MacDougal peak and Estey. This pass is shown in 
the foreground of Plate XXXI, and is known as the Snow Shoe pass and 
trail. It is impracticable in the summer time on account of the dense 
brush. 
The trails mentioned above are from the writer’s personal knowledge. 
By consulting the pages elsewhere trails into the Mission range may be 
located. 
The trail from Shultz’s cabin to the foot of the mountain is well 
worn, and shows much usage. Up the mountain side it is tortuous, wind- 
ing, and very irregular. It winds back and forth in the timber, unneces- 
sarily increasing the distance, in some cases actually losing ascent as 
one proceeds upward. As one traveler on the trail expressed it, the 
trail gives the impression of having been made by a drunken squaw, who 
had no idea of where she was going, and who wandered around in the 
woods. But it is no easy matter to find a way through a densely tim- 
