Author Topic: Pictures of Montana (Read 53395 times)

teddy12b · « **Reply #60 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:20:43 AM »

Indiana will always be home, but I'd be very happy to move out west if there were jobs that way.

Double D · « **Reply #61 on:** June 24, 2009, 06:54:55 PM »

Season: June-Summer 2009

Title: Jerusalem Rocks

Off the Beaten track in North Central Montana.

pab1 · « **Reply #62 on:** June 25, 2009, 06:21:46 AM »

Quote from: AtlLaw on June 24, 2009, 06:33:46 AM

They are beautiful! But they made me realise one thing. I have never seen mountains like that in person... Only pictures...

Atlaw, time for a road trip!

The pics are great, but nothing captures the feeling of being surrounded by some of the most beautiful country on earth! This quote by Del Gue from the movie Jeremiah Johnson does a good job at capturing how many of us feel about this country.

"Where's the Injuns what'll put arrers in yer back?
Where's yer slatherin' wolves of the rollin' prarie?
Where's yer grizzly brown bear as can claw the bark off a gum tree?
HERE'S A MAN for ya! I'm half horse, half gator, tougher'n a earthquake. I've got the prettiest gal, the fastest horse, and the ugliest dog this side of hell. I can out jump, out run, throw down, drag out and whip any man in old Kaintuck.

I told my pap and mam I was comin' to the mountains to trap and be a mountain man. Acted like they was gut shot! Sez, son, make your life go here. Here is where the people is. Them mountains is for animals and savages. I sez, Mother Gue, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world. By God, I was right!

I might never see 'em but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills and the Alps is for children to climb. These HERE is God's finest sculpturing. There ain't no laws fer the braves ones. Ain't no asylums fer the crazy ones. There ain't no churches 'cepten this right here. And there ain't no priests 'cepten the birds. By God, I are a mountain man and I'll live til an arrer or a bullet finds me and then I'll turn inter a post and moulder into the further buildin' up of these here mountains, the back bone of the world.

WAUGH!"

1Southpaw · « **Reply #63 on:** June 25, 2009, 08:31:13 AM »

Might add , Black Hills in far right top of first picture . Lots of fossils left from ancient sea beds . They need exploration for dinosaur bones.

pab1 · « **Reply #64 on:** June 26, 2009, 07:41:31 PM »

Here is an unusual rainbow I caught. His build reminds me of a salmon.

Zeeks · « **Reply #65 on:** July 15, 2009, 10:08:31 PM »

Great pics!!! Got married at Big Mtn near Whitefish. Haven't been to MT in a few years. Got to get back. Only problem is no jobs, and land is to high. 5 more years till retirement. I'm heading back. Lived in Cody, Wyo back in the 80's. Those pics are great! Mostly spent time in Flathead County area.

Double D · « **Reply #66 on:** January 17, 2010, 06:57:43 PM »

Season:Early Spring, January 2010

Title: Sunday Drive in the Sweetgrass Hills.

Southeast side West Butte

Peeking over the edge!

Gold Butte

East side, West Butte

Winter herd

Black Butte

What you looking at bub!

Zeeks · « **Reply #67 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:11:52 PM »

Great pics. Thats why Im heading there for retirement in a few years. Fantastic. Been looking for land there anywhere on the western side. Dont know how the wife is going to like winters there since she is from Ohio. Friends from Kalispell area try to explain to her about going out and shoveling snow off the roof and she is a little dumbfounded.... lol I can relate to driving an hour or two for a big mac. I used to live in Cody, wyo in the 80's and there was not any fast food. Had to drive to Billings for just about everything. Might just have to ride out there this summer and look around. Keep posting pics Im home sick...

Cottonwood · « **Reply #68 on:** January 24, 2010, 10:24:25 AM »

Quote from: Zeeks on January 21, 2010, 01:11:52 PM

Great pics. Thats why Im heading there for retirement in a few years. Fantastic. Been looking for land there anywhere on the western side. Dont know how the wife is going to like winters there since she is from Ohio. Friends from Kalispell area try to explain to her about going out and shoveling snow off the roof and she is a little dumbfounded.... lol I can relate to driving an hour or two for a big mac. I used to live in Cody, wyo in the 80's and there was not any fast food. Had to drive to Billings for just about everything. Might just have to ride out there this summer and look around. Keep posting pics Im home sick...

Zeek's I have not ever shoveled snow off my roof, and I live here in Kalispell. We have had some good snow fall in the past, but we are again in a very wimpy winter, as we are at the top of the Bananah belt here. They get more ice and snow back east and the midwest than we do here in the Kalispell area.

Here is a link to the Flathead Valley http://www.fcvb.org

But, we could get a real nice winter next year with serious snowfall and you just never know when that can happen.

Zeeks · « **Reply #69 on:** January 24, 2010, 01:05:40 PM »

Never been out there in winter. My friends live out past Creston , Echo Lake area back against the National Forest. Beautiful area. His Bro and Family live down by Swan Lake area in the Nat Forest. After being out there and living in flat land Ohio, I'll take Montana anytime. Would like to get up to Polebridge area. Only been up to Whitefish area, Glacier and southern area and down thru the Swan. Did backpack into the Bob Marshall Wildnerss area for 2 weeks. Bears and all... I know that only going out there for 2-3 weeks at a time, 6 or 7 times over the last 10-20 years makes me no expert on the area but man, there is something special about the mountains, clean air, quiet, wildlife, fishing, no getto blastin whatever, and the people you meet.

Cottonwood · « **Reply #70 on:** January 25, 2010, 04:48:34 AM »

Zeeks - Man your talking the areas that are right in my back yard.

Let me know if you need any pictures, as a refresher and to also help with the withdrawls of not being here. Those areas against the eastern foothills and rocky mountain base, up to Polebridge do get more snow than the main part of the Flathead Valley. Its all good, but someday I hope my wife and I will retire away from here. I do get tired of the snow, and love another place much more as the activies there I can not do here.

Jon

lucky guy · « **Reply #71 on:** June 04, 2010, 04:19:11 PM »

Quote from: Double D on November 02, 2008, 01:11:07 PM

Season: Spring in Jerusalem Rocks

Title: Karl the Wonder Dog hunts gophers

Shot this several years ago with my chemical camera when we were out gopher hunter. This is a common sight around Montana. One minute you are looking out across the rolling prairie the next you looking of over the rimrock into these deep coulees.

Great pics guys. Those coulees look like decent chukar habitat. Do you find any there?

Double D · « **Reply #72 on:** June 05, 2010, 05:52:49 AM »

No chukar, but Hungarian Partridge yes.

EVOC ONE · « **Reply #73 on:** June 15, 2010, 06:53:59 AM »

Great pictures. Thanks very much to all who posted.

In 2003 I rode my Harley out from Maryland to visit with friends who live near Phillipsburg, west of Butte. The pictures resemble many of the locations I saw. What an absolutely beautiful and wonderful place to be.

I'm planning to get back out there next summer.

Double D · « **Reply #74 on:** August 05, 2010, 07:01:55 AM »

Season: May 2010

Title: Glacier Park for Highway 2.

Ho humm another boring Montana scenery picture...we have to live with this.

Double D · « **Reply #75 on:** October 03, 2010, 04:17:32 AM »

Season: Fall 2011

Title: Harvest sunset over the farm

teddy12b · « **Reply #76 on:** October 03, 2010, 07:23:30 PM »

Quote from: Double D on October 03, 2010, 04:17:32 AM

Season: Fall 2011

Title: Harvest sunset over the farm

That's amazing!

saddlebum · « **Reply #77 on:** October 03, 2010, 08:12:44 PM »

Some elk near Glacier.

Glacier Natl. Park

Double D · « **Reply #78 on:** October 09, 2010, 01:00:01 PM »

Season: Fall 2010

Title: Sullivan farm

I have added an attachment show this photo full size so you can get real feel for how big Montana really is. Click on the picture below.

Double D · « **Reply #79 on:** November 17, 2010, 07:09:32 AM »

Season: Deer Season, 2011

Title: On a clear day....

Cottonwood · « **Reply #80 on:** March 25, 2011, 06:24:24 AM »

Backpack...$50 Hiking boots....$150 Mountains majesty.....Priceless!

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #81 on:** March 25, 2011, 07:21:44 AM »

Bawanna Jim and his older son Mike at the bird tail hunting for Mule Deer. november 2005
Just east of Cascade, MT.
I broke my ancle the day before in these mountains just North of Missoula

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #82 on:** March 25, 2011, 07:28:23 AM »

Do not know where this is.
It is in MT
Anyone tell me where I took this picture?

Cottonwood · « **Reply #83 on:** March 25, 2011, 08:10:01 AM »

That would have to be Cut Bank MT

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #84 on:** March 25, 2011, 10:23:54 AM »

Here are some of the area just south of Missoula from this past November

Poopers · « **Reply #85 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:50:55 AM »

Cotton, where was that mountain peak photo taken at that you just posted? I sure would like to get up there! Thanks

Cottonwood · « **Reply #86 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:41:37 PM »

Quote from: Poopers on March 26, 2011, 05:50:55 AM

Cotton, where was that mountain peak photo taken at that you just posted? I sure would like to get up there! Thanks

It is in Glacier National Park

HogFan · « **Reply #87 on:** May 18, 2011, 06:04:48 PM »

Really enjoyed the pictures. I lived in Great Falls, from 2001-2005 while stationed at Malmstrom AFB. I loved every minute of it, the wife not so much. I hunted many BMA areas all over Cascade and neighboring counties, as well as NF and BLM lands. I would move back in a minute if the wife could get a good paying job there.

Forster · « **Reply #88 on:** May 29, 2011, 06:52:01 AM »

Quote from: mcwoodduck on March 25, 2011, 07:28:23 AM

Do not know where this is.
It is in MT
Anyone tell me where I took this picture?

Rogers Pass.

Double D · « **Reply #89 on:** July 02, 2011, 03:59:10 AM »

Season: Early Summer

Title: Top of the Big Hole