I’ve been off the radar for a little while.  Not due to lack of ideas to write about, but due to lack of time. For the past seven months I have been part of the planning team for the inaugural Bozeman Tritons Triathlon.  Our local triathlon club, of which I am co-director, took over the local races this year after […]

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! “ —John Muir Mountains are often spoken of in grand terms…. “jagged peaks soaring to the sky” Or, “fangs of rock and ice piercing the blue infinity.”  Or, “grand monoliths rising out of the plains.”   But as a friend pointed out on a recent hike up the East Rosebud Valley […]

“The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.” — Robert M. Pirsig The Beartooth Highway is a real  Montana gem.  It is a crazy mountain road running 68 miles from Red Lodge, over Beartooth Pass (10,947′), to the northeast entrance of Yellowstone National Park at Silvergate.  The Highway opened in 1936 after years of financial wrangling […]

Is it just me, or is the weather getting a little bit wacky?  Here is yesterday’s NOAA weather map from the Great Falls office.  An impressive patchwork quilt of colors representing just about every nasty bit of weather that spring time can throw out us.  What you don’t see is that every area actually has multiple warnings.  Only the most severe […]

You may be asking yourself, “Self, why does ‘Mountain Whimsy – Musings from Montana’ have a section about surfboards?”  Good question.  And one I ask myself from time to time.  It my be a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sort of thing.  An alter ego or bi-polar personality.  I live in the mountains and call them home.  I spend my free time […]