September snow trees in Montana

stupid power lines...

The first frost that stuck

 

Carkeek November 16th, 2014 a thick frost that stuck all day.

Burnt Montana Wood

we saw the remnants of so many forest fires in our Montana explorations. here is some of the burnt wood aka charcoal.

leaf fingers

my dog get these weird eye fingers, that is what we call them anyhow.
They are like really tough fingery zits - with keratin build up inside.
They started happening about ten months ago.
These leaf fingers remind me of the dog's eye fingers.

Mountain Goat P

Mountain Goat P please report to the west side of St Mary's lake, come in Mountain Goat P, come in.....

Quails in Eastern Washington

Rocks on the edge of St Mary's Lake

Apgar look out trail, Montana

 

Montana was partially about incorrectly remembering the lengths of trails.

when thinking we were on a 3 mile round trip trail with an easy stride twice we were on over 7  mile trails with tough going 2,000 grade climb.

oops.

Our vacations would drive the obsessive planner nuts as we are very free flowing and don't always reach the "goal" if the goal for most is in fact the end of the trail.

Montana, bigger you are then Washington, more spread out you are and by golly your trails are more as well.

More, More , More.

All this space and you are starting to grow with folks coming for your space.

I hope the winter diluge keeps most the folks away, so you can be wild.

 

Montana dead trees

Just Below Logan Pass, where we saw the Mountain Goats

Montana Mountain Goats at Glacier National Park

 Look Mountain Goats!!!
 Does it become more fun to watch people watching the wildlife after awhile?
potentially.