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Bud, seen here, called me one day, said he was thinking about selling his ranch. He wanted me to come down and walk it with him and see what I thought. Bud was 94 then, we walked his 900 acres for 6 hours I could not keep up with him. The last time I talked to him, he and his son were hiking up to Tin Cup lake a 9 mile hike and 3000 feet above the valley floor.
This picture is a bear cave on his ranch that's been used for so many years that the rock path into it is smooth from the bears coming and going every year. |
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This cabin was built at the turn of last century at the head of the Nine Mile Valley just west of Missoula and was used by a gold miner. The site was one of the little heard of places where gold was found in Montana. One day this miner went to the creek and found a 5 pound gold nugget. I'd say that made his day. |
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I don't know if you can see the bird in this picture but he's got a very large fish in his mouth and looks very happy. |
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This is on a very nice little ranch just north of Great Falls. Click on the picture and you can see the Prong Horn there in the middle of the picture. Soon after the picture was shot he was off and running. |
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we're liking our winter walks on the beach, much better than the walks via snow shoe or ski in Montana. |
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This was the end of one very long winters day. We had just gone 14 miles round trip in to the mountains to see a little property way the hell in the middle of no where....but it sure was fun. |
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several years ago I got this picture on top of Lolo pass. Even in this big snow country they don't see this much every year. What you didn't see was the road into this place. You felt like it could cave in at any time and did about 30 minutes after I left the road was closed because the side of the road had come down. Now that would have been a cold time hoping a plow truck would come and open the road again. |