  I've been in Montana for a few days now...the weather has been beautiful and I'm more relaxed after 4 days here than I've been in months. Work, boy troubles, financial concerns...all of that washes away with the dirt after a 5 mile hike. I'm looking out a huge bay window to the mountain range a few miles away, and Big Mountain is right behind us.
It's a 1/4 mile walk to the chairlift that takes you right to the summit, and a few of us have been up there every night this week to get a few beers and watch the landscape change with the setting of the sun. (Which doesn't set until around 10:30 at night..kinda confusing body-clock wise. ) Moose Drool is my new favorite beer: kinda like Guiness but better, it has a mild chocolate/coffee taste in the foam that is just mmmm. We're going to do a "walk in the trees" today...some 60-100 feet up in the trees there's a boardwalk of sorts. I have a very strange feeling that I'm going to be petrified of the height...scardycat. I'll post more later tonight after a glass of wine or two. It's nice to be so calm again! 
