Montana Outdoors

Montana Outdoors http://montucky.wordpress.com A weblog dedicated to the world outside the cities. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:31:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png Montana Outdoors http://montucky.wordpress.com Well, maybe not http://montucky.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/well-maybe-not/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/well-maybe-not/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:52:57 +0000 montucky http://montucky.wordpress.com/?p=3177 ]]>

Shooting range

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Eddy peak

The lookout on top of Eddy Peak, center, looked cold and lonely today.

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January sunrise

(This was a lazy photo for me: it was taken from the deck this morning.)

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Winter moonrise

Tonight a cold front is moving in.

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Frost

In preparation for the new ferns of the coming spring, Mother Nature has the prototypes on Her drawing board.

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Clark Fork winter

Happy New year, and a Joyous Holiday Season!

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Beaver pond in winter

Well, sort of winter; technically it is winter even though it doesn’t look like it. This pond was made by some beavers who put together a dam across the mouth of a little stream just before it enters the river. It has been cold enough to create some fairly substantial ice on the spillway from the dam (but not substantial enough to keep my boot from breaking through it when I walked across on it). Brrrr!

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Clark Fork winter

Mother Nature did a little decorating last night along the river.

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Trail to Cube Iron

For most of the past month our weather here has been rather dismal, the beauty of the autumn colors having passed and the bright snow of winter not yet in residence. It is a good time to visit the photo archives and reminisce about past journeys and scenes from along the summer trails. This photo is from the USFS trail 460 to Cube Iron Mountain in the Cube Iron – Silcox Roadless area. It was not included in a series that I posted about that trip in August of 2010.

I believe that trails like this are treasures of the American West and I fervently hope that they will always be respected and preserved. The land through which they wind is part of our National Forests and therefore they belong to all of the citizens of our country no matter where they reside and all are welcome to use and enjoy them.

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