Marty’s photo of the day #4479: One of the cool things about living in a mountainous state like Montana is that for much of the summer, if you want to see spring flowers, you can just move higher. While my wife and I were staying at the Canyon Creek Cabin last week, the elevation ranged […]
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Rock Mountain Dwarf Sunflowers
Marty’s photo of the day #4478: One of the cool things about living in a mountainous state like Montana is that for much of the summer, if you want to see spring flowers, you can just move higher. While my wife and I were staying at the Canyon Creek Cabin last week, the elevation ranged […]
Spring flowers in the summer
Marty’s photo of the day #4477: One of the cool things about living in a mountainous state like Montana is that for much of the summer, if you want to see spring flowers, you can just move higher. While my wife and I were staying at the Canyon Creek Cabin last week, the elevation ranged […]
Charcoal kilns . . . or something else?
Marty’s photo of the day #4474: One of the weirdest moments of Deb’s, Nellie’s, and my stay last week at the Canyon Creek Cabin was visiting the Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns. From 1884 to 1900, men made charcoal there, which they shipped via horse-drawn wagons to the Glendale smelter, five miles down the road. We […]
Apocalypse Cabin
Marty’s photo of the day #4471: Each summer, Deb and I rent at least one U.S. Forest Service Cabin, and last week we rented the Canyon Creek Cabin in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (west of Melrose, Montana). One Montana cabin tradition that sickens me is that quite literally every cabin has skulls and bones hanging […]
What would you do?
Marty’s photo of the day #4469: Want to have some fun with an interesting moral question? When Deb and I took three days off-the-grid to rent the Canyon Creek Cabin, we did a lot of playing and hiking in the area. On our second day, we spent a few hours along a tiny stream. These […]
Canyon Creek Cabin
Marty’s photo of the day #4467: Deb (wife), Nellie (dog), and I are back from a three-day stay at the Canyon Creek Cabin in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (west of Melrose, Montana). Since moving to Montana, in 1996, Deb and I have maintained a tradition of renting one or two US Forest Service cabins a […]