Photos from Montana

I have been so busy doing so much learning for our new travel advisory business (you would think being an avid traveler would be enough…but alas, there is so much to learn!) and then taking this emergency medical responder course….it takes up a lot of time….I have yet to pick up my nice camera in 2024 and I miss it. I realized that I had over 1000 photos to go through in lightroom. After taking a block test and taking notes on a new chapter, I opened up my surface to start going through some photos. I am in my happy place! I am pretty far behind…many photos were from the fall. 

Here are some photos from the Hungry Horse Dam. Hungry Horse is the small town between where we live and Glacier National Park. We answer mutual calls with Hungry Horse volunteer fire department. They are a great group of folks. They came to our fire hall when I helped teach Stop the Bleed class. They drove over in their bright shiny new fire truck. Truck envy…it’s a thing between rural volunteer fire departments. These were taken in October.

These next photos were taken in Whitefish, Montana, about 20 minutes from our house. This was in September, the last summer runs up Big Mountain on the ski lifts before they closed until ski season. The views were spectacular.

At the end of September, I drove 5 hours to Anaconda, Montana, near Butte. I went to a program for women of western Montana with cancer, called Mending in the Mountains. It was a free weekend getaway….we just had to get there. There were 60 of us women and it was wonderful to meet people going through some of the same things I am. Think of Shrek and Donkey talking about the onion….I didn’t have to worry about peeling away so many layers, because we all had a lot of the same layers. It is nice to not have to explain things…side effects from meds, fears of treatments or death. For me it was like being with my military friends, they know the lifestyle and the sacrifices made…they just get it. Here were some of the photos on the way there and back.

The next group of photos were taken in Glacier National Park on November 1st. My mom was visiting at the time and there was some snow, but still some pretty colors as well. This is why GNP is called the Crown Jewel of the Continent (and why we named our Cruise Planners business Crown Jewel Cruise Planners….as a nod to our beautiful national park right here in our back yard.

I have so many photos to still work on….lots from our time in San Diego….they have a pretty awesome zoo and safari park there. I also have more Glacier National Park photos from both the East and West side…including some moose photos that I can’t believe I haven’t processed yet. Those are forthcoming.