We started back on the trail amongst piles of hail. The sky was so dark and it was only noon. We amazingly did not get stormed on this day, but the weather was a lot cooler this section. The Bitterroot Mountains were beautiful and rugged. We followed the Montana and Idaho border the whole entire section. We paid dearly for taking two weeks off of the trail. Our bodies got reintroduced to the pain of hiking 20 miles a day, in new shoes. We were now two weeks behind all of the other southbound thru hikers that we started with. However, we started running into hikers that were northbound and had started in New Mexico in April! Towards the end of the section we began to feel like we were at home again, and the joint and foot pain started decreasing. However, there was still the mental pain of knowing that we still have 2000+ miles to hike. We just continue to take it day by day.
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