A sturdy footbridge across the South Fork a quarter mile from the trailhead provides good views up- and downstream. Afterward, be sure to stop at nearby Lone Mountain Ranch for an après-snowshoe drink in the saloon.
Montana is infamous for its extremes of terrain and weather. Snowstorms can howl across this state like packs of white wolves, screaming through the streets, burying cars and stranding drivers in white-out conditions. Roads become glazed with ice and ground blizzards destroy visibility.
Winter dogs share common adaptations to cold weather. Typically thick-furred, they are larger and smarter than normal dogs and bred to glide over powder and sniff out the faintest scents from intruders to people in need.
Ever walked through a cemetery and imagined footsteps behind you, rustling in the leaves, or bony hands reaching up through the layers of the moldy earth?
Old bridges are ubiquitous in the Montana landscape and are often taken for granted by motorists. Montana currently has a little over five thousand bridges on its Interstates and primary, secondary, and county roadways.
The millionaire art dealer had been diagnosed with cancer. Until then Fenn led an adventurous life and he wanted an adventurous death. After soul searching, he hatched a plan. He would stuff an antique bronze chest with some of the artifacts he spent his life collecting: 265 coins, pre-Columbian animal figures, gold dust, an antique dragon coat bracelet fixed with 250 some odd rubies, several diamonds, a 2,000-year-old Colombian necklace, and more
Confined to the 39,000 acres that is the Pryor wild horse range, these horses are wedded to the landscape. Many are clothed with the very colors of the Pryor Mountains themselves. Horses the color of dampened limestone, faded grass, and mudstone.
There is no more special place in the lower 48 than the Bob Marshall Wilderness area, and no more special getaway from “the clutches of mechanistic civilization” than the small, rustic intrusion of the K Bar L ranch west of Augusta. Our first sign of its
