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Some of Pat and Sherry's
favorite hiking trails |
Bass Creek and trail |
Bass Lake a few miles up the trail |
Bear Creek |
Bear Creek trail |
Bitterroot River at Maclay Flats |
Maclay Flats trail |
Sam Braxton National Recreation Trail |
Sam Braxton National Recreation Trail |
Larry Creek Fire Ecology trail |
View of Bitterroot Valley and Mountains from top of Fire Ecology trail |
Kootenai Creek trail |
Face in rock formation along Kootenai Creek trail |
Ross Creek Cedars trail |
Merged cedar trunks along trail |
a
nice place to rest and reflect |
my
mom -- these trees are huge |
Rattlesnake Creek trail |
Rattlesnake Creek |
Foundation of one of the homesteads that used to exist along the creek |
Old fireplace beside Spring Creek that flows into the Rattlesnake |
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More Reasons to Love Montana |
The beautiful blue of a Montana sky on a clear spring day |
Clearwater River swollen after days of rain/snow |
Century old Cottonwood tree on ground of Daly Mansion |
Flathead Lake
--the largest natural body of water west of the Mississippi River |
You know it's spring
when the Osprey return to their nests |
Seeley Lake
--largest in a string of glacier carved lakes |
Swan Mountain Range
covered in fresh snow |
Trapper Peak behind
mountain meadow |
GRAND OLD LADY OF THE
FOREST -- I found this magnificent Ponderosa pine while snow-shoeing
with friends this past winter. When spring arrived, I went back to
relocate it and take some photos. Ponderosa pines normally have a
single trunk that rise a hundred feet or more into the sky. This
beautiful Ponderosa's trunk has split into two branches, each
splitting several more times as they reach for the sky. She has most
probably stood on this spot for well over a hundred years.
To give you some idea of her size, her truck is between four and five
feet across at its base. |
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