I may have to go to Montana this summer!! Ask me anything!!

[madinmaryland]

What do you do in Montana???

:shrug:

[skygazer]

1. Go to Yellowstone

Glacier National Park
Little Bighorn

Montana is gorgeous! :bounce:

[madinmaryland]

2. I'll probably be going to Helena and Miles City.

:shrug:

Thanks your rec's!

[Ptah]

3. There is a museum in Helena that has an albino bison.

Big Medicine (1933-1959)

Bison. In May 1933 a white buffalo was born at the National Bison Range at Moiese, Montana.
This was the first documented birth of a white buffalo in the twentieth century. Biologists
and rangers at the Bison Range, evincing a bureaucrat's keen imagination, named the
calf "Whitey." Members of the Blackfoot Nation who came to Moiese to commemorate the birth
of this special buffalo named the calf "Big Medicine." The white calf was, except for a brown
patch about his crown, an off-white color, as he matured Big Medicine's coat turned pure white.
His eyes, lacking normal pigmentation, were bluish-gray. At age four, Big Medicine was mated
to his dam, who gave birth to a pure albino calf, subsequently named "Little Medicine."
Little Medicine--a true albino with a pure white coat, white hooves, and pink eyes--was born
partially blind, and was abandoned by his mother soon after birth. Although the albino calf
was transported to the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. where he received
special care, Little Medicine died before the year was out. Big Medicine, however,
lived to the ripe old age of twenty-six. Big Medicine's remains were subjected to the
taxidermist's art and can be viewed at the museum at the Montana Historical Society in Helena, Montana.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3807/features/montanoids_1.html

[madinmaryland]

4. Cool!! I'll try and remember that!!

[TZ]

5. My friend lizerdbits has family in Montana

I think she went last summer by train to visit. She posted pics and it looked just gorgeous...
If you come to the party on Saturday, you should ask her about it..:hi:

[madinmaryland]

12. I won't be taking the train when I go out.

It's on business.

:hi:

[TZ]

17. No but, she can tell you what there is to "do" out there..

although it seems like its been covered. I saw pics of Glacier National Park..gorgeous

[edbermac]

6. Bring your camera.

Some camera club members went to Glacier National Park last fall. If you've seen The Shining with Jack Nicholson driving to the hotel through the mountains in the beginning of the movie; that's Glacier Park.

[Ptah]

9. That hotel is in Oregon

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia

The Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon was used for the front exterior, but all the interiors
as well as the back of the hotel were specially built at Elstree Studios in London, England.

[edbermac]

19. True the helicopter exterior shot of the hotel was in Oregon...

Right before THE INTERVIEW title card. But the opening helicopter shots through the mountains following Jack's yellow VW before that were in Glacier Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)

"The opening panorama shots (which were used by Ridley Scott for the closing moments of the original cut of the film Blade Runner) and all scenes of the Volkswagen Beetle on the road to the hotel were filmed in Glacier National Park in Montana. These scenes were filmed out of a helicopter, which can be seen briefly in the open matte version of the film in the lower right-hand corner of the screen and whose blades can be seen when first shown the exterior of the hotel."

So there! :P

[Ptah]

23. ooh

:blush:

[JVS]

7. What did you do wrong?

[MissMillie]

8. Glacier National Park is beautiful

I recommend it.

[Bennyboy]

15. How long till glacier natl Park is renamed "dirt national park"?

????

[MissMillie]

16. I think it will be a while yet

but yeah.... I hear ya

[BeachBaby]

10. How many tolls?

:hi:

Nah....you're prolly flying, right? PLEASE tell me you're renting a sports car for the visit - speed limits are awesome there! :)

[madinmaryland]

11. I don't think they have toll roads out there.

:shrug:

Yes, I would be flying. But I may have to go from the Helena across to the east side (Miles City). It's on the company, so it would probably be a generic sedan.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. Harvest dental floss

[DFW]

18. "moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon......"

[edbermac]

21. Watch out where the huskies go...

And don't you eat that yellow snow....

[CreekDog]

14. Montana is wonderful

Glacier Park is incredible, Missoula is a cool town, the Flathead Lake area is also very enjoyable, and Yellowstone :applause:

And the best thing, the state is not crowded, even Yellowstone is so big that I never feel crowded there (Old Faithful gets busy, but that's about it). Oh and there's this river at Yellowstone called the Firehole River, it's partially fed by geothermal sources so the water's warm (80's) and there's this stairway to the river off the Firehole Drive and you can go down there and jump in the river and the current takes you down a little bit and get out on the rocks and do it all over again. Oh yeah and the Mammoth portion of Yellowstone, wow :applause: is just fascinating and weird.

And Bozeman is a cool little town too.

And Waterton Lakes Glacier Nat'l Park (next to Glacier but in Canada is cool)



One more thing, up in Missoula in June and early July, it doesn't get dark until well after 10pm.

And if you are out there and time allows, take a few days and go up to the Banff and Jasper areas in Alberta.



oooo, ahhhhhhh...well, now I've got spring fever! :bounce:

Now I'm jealous, extremely jealous, but happy for you if you actually get to go.

:hi:

[av8rdave]

20. You phrased it wrong. You may GET to go to Montana this summer!

You'll love it!

[jmowreader]

22. Make sure to go to Lincoln's 10000 Silver Dollar Bar

http://www.beans-around-the-world.com/mt.html

This is on Interstate 90 at Exit 16. It's called such because the man who built it started collecting any silver dollars he received as payment, and put them on display on the bar (they're embedded in plastic, of course) and behind it. They're probably up to $40,000 now, and they're still doing it. Tourist trap, but not a bad one.

Montana also has the only open--no security guards--state capitol building in America. I read once of a family who heard about this and decided to eat their lunch in the capitol building, then tour the premises. They chose an open room and had lunch. About halfway through a hefty middle-aged man saw them, went in and shot the shit with them for twenty minutes or so before the family asked him what his job was. Well...his job was governor of Montana. Yup, it was Brian Schweitzer.

[LSK]

24. I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW

Post the brazilian joke from cyber cafes in Missoula!!!

:D

[Sequoia]

25. Hey, go visit the Little Big Horn.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x118877

[driver8]

26. I would LOVE to go to Montana!!

I have never been, and that is one state I have always wanted to visit.

[greendog]

27. You might check out Olive Garden in Billings.

OLIVE GARDEN
2201 GRANT RD
BILLINGS MT 59102
[phone] [phone]
Su-Th 11:00 AM - 10:00 PM, Fr-Sa 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM

If you go to Glacier:
(no guarantees but) The best place to look for grizzlies is the Many Glacier area. The griz like to hang out and forage in the open space on the north side of the road. Bring binoculars if you can. If you see cars parked on the side of the road and people looking at the hillside for no apparent reason chances are pretty good you'll get to see a bear (or two or three). Two Sisters Restaurant in Babb is rumored to be pretty decent.

[Miss Carly]

28. Go to Glacier park, pretty place

Carly