Hauser Lake
We got away in good time this morning and drove to Milk River where we checked our email. From there it is just a short drive to the border crossing where everything went very smoothly.
After crossing the border we drove to Shelby, MT and got gas, then continued on to Great Falls. We stopped there to buy a good supply of groceries, stocking up for about the next ten days.
After Great Falls we drove to just north of Helena, MT. The White Sandy campground is a forest service campground, but very nice. It is on the shore of Hauser Lake, a reservoir on the Missouri River. When we got here there was a small notice posted on the registration board that the campsite is closed from today until September 20. There is no-one else in the campground, but the ranger said we could stay here for one night. They are closing the campground to seal coat the roads. The roads are in very good shape though, so there can’t be a lot of work to do.
I washed the front bumper of the Tahoe, and the front of the trailer this afternoon. They were very badly covered with grasshoppers.
We drove through quite a bit of light rain today. It was also very windy this afternoon. It threw the trailer around a great deal, since it was mostly a cross-wind. It hasn’t died a great deal yet this evening, and since it is a north west wind, it’s quite a bit cooler.
Unfortunately there is no T-Mobile coverage in this area, so our Roam Mobility cell phone doesn’t do us any good. We will have to stop somewhere to get wireless access to post this. We are not likely to have any coverage in Yellowstone at all.