There is, of course, only one thing to do when standing atop the Continental Divide.
Thanks to these lovely folks for the pizza and beer. As you may notice in the picture, Budweiser-with-Clamato made an appearance as well. I figured it was finally time to try it. I'd rate it as "disgusting". Better than "revolting", but worse than "gross". I'm glad I tried it, though, because now I feel like I really belong here in Montana.
They saw me passing by and invited me over for breakfast. There will be well over 100 attendees, and huckleberry ice cream, by this afternoon, but a walkin' man must keep walkin'.
It's killing unfathomable numbers of trees all across the region.
But I could still peek through the window at the grizzly bear exhibit.
The sign was originally two-sided, but someone stole the back of it about 15 minutes after they set it out!
For five bucks! What am I, made of money?
Willy saw me strolling by and called out to me: "Hey, come on over and have some dinner!" So I did. I also got some fresh produce from his new terraced hillside garden: carrots, radishes, lettuce, and spinach.
From left to right: Carol, Anna, Carson, Willy
But this patient fellow just stayed perfectly still for me.
St. Ignatius's water supply is contaminated with E. coli, but this spring a few miles outside town runs clean and cold, straight out of the mountain. I would have missed it if it weren't for a couple of locals filling up water bottles here.
Madan is my buddy from New York, but he grew up in Montana. I knew he was coming out to visit friends and family sometime soon, but I didn't know any other details. Then, all of sudden, he and his friend Callee showed up on a gravel road in the middle of the woods, bearing knishes from New York! They walked with me for a while, and we ate lunch together in St. Ignatius, where I had my first huckleberry product: a milkshake.
Someone placed them at the base of quite a few mile markers along Highway 200 (at least 13 and counting).
Not Perma Mountain.
(Perma is actually the name of the community where this business is located.)
