Trail-Ready: Conditioning for Flathead Valley Hiking Season

Jewel Basin doesn’t care how your winter went. Four to six weeks of smart training will.

Around here, hiking season arrives fast — one week the trails are snowed in, the next your friends are planning a Jewel Basin loop with 2,000 feet of climbing. The gap between couch shape and trail shape is where sore knees and miserable descents live.

Also at Montana Athletic Club: personal training, recovery room, MAC membership.