Blogs from Montana, United States, North America - page 81

My first overnight hiking trip of the summer was through the Hylite Canyon area all the way back to Bozeman, overall about 20ish miles. Hylite Reservoir is a great place for people to go to get out of the crazy summer heat of the high plains. It has a huge lake/reservoir to go swimming in, a dozen or so trails to hike and a ton of waterfalls coming down the mountain (see the journal entry: url="http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Montana/Bozeman/blog-93291.html" target="_blank"A Hike Up Hylite Mountain). It was a nice hike through some thickly forested evergreen trees and through some nice Alpine Meadows. Believe it or not, I learned something on this hike! Yippee! Here's a list of what I learned: Bluebells are NOT poisonous I learned that Blue Bells (this is a lin... read more

3 bored law students on break itching to hit the open road + 1 borrowed car = experiencing an authentic Montana high school rodeo. We didn’t particularly have a destination in mind for our roadtrip as the general area of Montana was good enough. We weren’t sure if Sam would make it across the border as he had an incredibly old Hong Kong passport and an expired Canadian passport with no current proof of citizenship. Truth be told, we were half convinced that Sam would be rejected at the border or denied entry on the way back. Miraculously/sadly, neither happened. Perhaps the border crossing at Glacier National Park is more sympathetic to foreign looking tourists entering the country eager to snap photos of lakes and mountains. First stop was a small town called East Glacier ... read more

HELLO TO ALL IN GEORGIA, WE ARE STILL IN MONTANA. WE TOURED GLACIER NATIONAL PARK TODAY. MOST OF THE ROADS ARE STILL CLOSED. STILL SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS. WEATHER WAS 82 TODAY AND WILL BE 62 TOMORROW. WHAT A CHANGE. GLACIER PARK WAS BEAUTIFUL. DIDN'T SEE MUCH OF IT BUT ENJOYED WHAT WE DID SEE. WILL BE LEAVING HERE TOMORROW GOING INTO CANADA. HOPE THAT GOES WELL. I HEAR THEY CAN BE REAL PICKY AT THE BORDER. HOPE WE DON'T GET PUT IN JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WILL PROBABLY BE IN CANADA FOR FOUR OR FIVE DAYS. HOPE WE GET CELL COVERAGE. WE HAVE HAD A GREAT TRIP SO FAR. HAVE HAD DISH PROBLEMS BUT HOPE WE HAVE FIXED THAT. TAKE CARE, DWIGHT & BRENDA... read more

The time late April, the place Northern Yellowstone National Park, the People: Mike Sulock, Kezia Manlove, Mike "Moon" Sweely and myself. The four of us decided to go forth and hike up through the Lamar Valley close to the location that I saw the Grizzly and the Wolves fighting over the dead Buffalo carcass in . The actual goal behind this hike was to make it to "Dead Bear Springs", but we didn't quite get to the springs (though we saw it from a distance). If you aren't looking for an intense hike with lots of ups and downs, this isn't a bad hike to do. It's fairly flat along the high plains, BUT if you are nervous around large 'ornery' buffalo than I don't recommend it, we encountered roughly a half a dozen of ... read more

Shortly After seeing my brothers off my friend Amanda came to pay me and Montana State University a visit! During her visit we got to see a very rare sight in Yellowstone, A Grizzly Bear and a Grey Wolf pack fighting over the carcass of a dead bison about three miles from us! We ran into a bunch of Wolf Watchers with their spotting scopes and hung out with them for a bit and watched the wolves and the bear duke it out for a couple of hours. Here is a little hint on seeing wildlife in Yellowstone: Don't watch the woods or the horizon for animals and movement, watch for the people. There are so many dang people, that when one person sees an animal, it really causes a traffic dilemma, so just pull ... read more