Brett French Lee Newspapers Aug 21, 2025 Aug 21, 2025 Nineteen years after he took one of his sons on an ill-fated backpacking attempt to reach Elk Lake in the Beartooth Mountains, Brian Hildreth ...
HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Army National Guard recently completed a high-altitude search and rescue mission to recover a missing 71-year-old hiker in the Stillwater Plateau region of the Beartooth ...
Hiking into the lakes to the north of the plateau requires a steep 400-foot descent in less than a quarter mile without a beaten path. Yet the lakes are so close, visible from the top of the plateau, ...