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A day later at Lost Trail Powder Mountain, I found myself in the midst of an epic Bitterroot Range blizzard.

Regulars swear by the powder that falls at Lost Trail, at the crest of the Bitterroot Range on the Idaho-Montana border.

The 196-acre property has a 500-square-foot cabin and views of the Bitterroot Range.

The process was certainly complete by 1805, when Lewis and Clark found the Lemhi River Shoshone hiding in the fastnesses west of the Bitterroot Range and lamenting their loss of the Missouri River buffalo country to better-armed groups.

POWELL, Idaho — After a day on cross-country skis in the Bitterroot Range along the Idaho-Montana border, the dinner of spaghetti with elk meat was just the thing.