Sunday, May 08, 2005
This past weekend, Jenny, Julia and I went to go visit Keegan and Ryan, some friends who recently bought a house on the Rocky Mountain Front (location not to be disclosed). It was conveniently located just east of the Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Continental divide. We went expecting a Unabomber style shack but they found an amazing little A-Frame situated on top of a gorge with an amazing view and large creek down and that bottom with numerous waterfalls, one coming in at about sixty feet high. Saturday morning we went for a walk up the creek and checked out all of the falls, and at one point there is about a 20 foot waterfall into this gorge, which at it's narrowest is only about 3 feet wide. We kept hiking up the river and into an old burn area and from there you could have just headed straight into the Bob Marshall. The weather picked up and started to rain so we headed back for the comfort of the house. From then on it just started dumping all day. I haven't seen it rain all day like that in a long time. Later that afternoon Keegan spotted some bright colors on top of the gorge and it was some kayakers. We went outside to check it out. We caught up with them just below the large waterfall and found that they had portaged around that and were lowering their boats back into the gorge. We hung out on the bluff to watch them run the rest of the creek and then retreated back inside because it was still pouring. The next day (today) we took off in the morning. We tried to head out the way we came in on the "highway" (one-lane dirt road) but two miles into it, it was super muddy and a car had already slid off the road. I touched my brakes and slide about 30 feet and found that I couldn't get out of the ruts. We bailed on that idea and opted for the much nicer dirt highway to the north that eventually turned to pavement again. Just a short 40 mile detour. On the way out we were driving through the plains and it was pretty amazing because Jenny and I had never really seen that part of Montana before. There were tons of Antelope, different kinds of birds and we saw the largest Eagle sitting on the side of the road that either of us had ever seen. We drove past a Hutterite colony out in the middle of nowhere where everyone was walking in the middle of the highway like cars didn't even exist. Good weekend trip.
Photos:
Prime Location
The View out the Window.
The House with the Creek Below
The Whole Creek Runs through this Gorge.
A Closer Look at the Gorge.
The Largest Waterfall
Creek Boaters
An Eagle on the Side of the Road
Photos:
Prime Location
The View out the Window.
The House with the Creek Below
The Whole Creek Runs through this Gorge.
A Closer Look at the Gorge.
The Largest Waterfall
Creek Boaters
An Eagle on the Side of the Road
