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Nice. Thought you were much closer to my age.
Same sense of thought for Flathead area. Wife's family multi generation Great Falls / Flathead. Raz the heck over past vs present and probable future. That said, it's a challenge to find a more favored State to call home / retire (4.5 year countdown). Her entire family tree is rooted in MT. However, the snow and splitting rounds are some aspects that prompt our interest in a retired seasonal southern and (or) tropical departure. The "snowbird" effect. Snow is enjoyable, to an extent.Likely just about everybody feels this way no matter when they moved to Bozeman.
My wife and I have discussed where the next spot might be for us to live. We have some solid possibilities, but the honest truth is where we live now is pretty damn good. Bozeman is part of that thought process, as much as I enjoy railing on her.
But I DO believe when I arrived in the mid eighties Montana was a better place. The total outdoor experience was far superior, without a doubt. I miss that.
Norman MaClean, “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories”.“And I surrender it now only with great reluctance to dude ranches, the unselected inhabitants of Great Falls, and the Moorish invaders from California”.
I savy...it was in quotations...but you still rallied a good one.Norman MaClean, “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories”.
Parts of this conjure up wild visions.
I had forgotten about that event.
Great quote. A.B. Guthrie Jr. was always pretty explicit that the theme of that book was "Man destroys the thing he loves."“The whole shitaree. Gone, by God, and naught to care savin’ some of us who seen ‘er new. - Uncle Zeb (1830) - Big Sky - A.B. Guthrie, JR.
Every generation thinks this place has been ruined and maybe it has, but I can’t think of any place that I’d rather be right now than SW Montana.
Agreed from someone who's been here for many decades. IMO Big Sky and the Yellowstone Club are the worst thing that could have happened to the Gallatin.So I guess it's not the growth that is problematic for me. It's what is coming with it.
I don't think the inversions are as bad as they were back in the day of Stone Container. And I'll take skiing Snowbowl any day over Bridger Bowl. Just personal preference. Bozeman does have better in-town XC, when it has snow.I'd pick the winters in Bozeman any day over the winters in Missoula. Missoula is dark and gloomy with the inversions, and Boz has the x country skiing and downhill, plus more sunshine.
Wild picture. Beautiful40 years ago......looking south towards Bozeman. Solid housing developments now.
My family moved there from Miles City in the mid 60's. It was an amazing place to grow up. I left there in 1994 for Eastern Montana.
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My family came to the Root in the early 70's from Shelby country. Family there still. I like Shelby. mtmuley40 years ago......looking south towards Bozeman. Solid housing developments now.
My family moved there from Miles City in the mid 60's. It was an amazing place to grow up. I left there in 1994 for Eastern Montana.
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