The Best First Stage; Otherwise, Idaho's Better | MTBDR Epilogue

After completing the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route, we're up to ten BDRs since we started running them in 2017. Through the running of each one, @mrs.turbodb and I are - as you can imagine - regularly comparing the current BDR to the past ones. Now that I've been writing down these thoughts for the last five or so, it seems like a good tradition to continue into the future. TL;DR - The Montana BDR had the absolute best Stage 1 of any BDR we've run. Working through the ridgelines of the Gravelly Mountains - especially early in the season when…