Ribka,
The Lolo is a nice area, but the ticks were so bad there the one year I went spring bear hunting there that I haven't been back before an October hunt since!
And you don't have you imagine swimming the river... I'll just say that its not that fun! haha I was extremely surprised to see how long my body took to recover the next day. We had hardly eaten anything that day and I think my body was working pretty hard to keep my temp up!
Mike