Just When You Think You Are All Alone

[shrapnel]

Hunting grouse on a high ridge top, seeing very few but still enjoying the view, I run into this memorial...

 

[JCS]

Your not the only one that likes the spot

 

[Southern Elk]

I thought this was going to be another naked hippie chick spotted by Greenhorn.

 

[MontanaElkHunter25]

I've never came across a grave in the mountains but I have had a 4wheeler go off the main path and damn near hit me guy didn't even slow down or stop just kept going.

 

[The Hedgehog]

Did you carve your name on it?

 

[The Hedgehog]

There’s a “she said yes” sculpted piece of glass above 191 on a lookout above the 35Mph bridge. Someday, somebody will take it or wreck it.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

Hallowed ground

 

[Phaseolus]

Most alone I’ve ever felt was half way between Fiji and Australia on a 35 foot sloop.

 

[golfer]

Place we set camp up for opening week of archery season, after looking around the direct area found a memorial of two gentlemen who must have camped at the same spot over the years.

 

[Lilhowie83]

I found this a few weeks ago while scouting my elk hunting area. I used my Google detective skills and found out that it's a guy who spent his whole summer in the area, herding sheep, as a youth.

 

[diamond hitch]

I was hunting elk near lookout pass and stopped to eat a pasty in a creek bottom. This was a nasty thick jungle from hell that challenged your soul. Suddenly there was a rifle shot just above me and a dead elk slid into the creek bottom. Shortly there after came a floor mate from Uof M - 12 years before. An interesting reunion.

 

[KipCarson]

I’ve found a few mountain memorials over the years. The most memorable one was when I climbed up Rito Alto Peak in the Sangres and found an American Flag placed there with a memorial for PFC Christopher Horns, killed in combat in Kandahar. That’ll make you stop and think about life and what really matters for sure.

 

[LuketheDog]

I’ve found a few mountain memorials over the years. The most memorable one was when I climbed up Rito Alto Peak in the Sangres and found an American Flag placed there with a memorial for PFC Christopher Horns, killed in combat in Kandahar. That’ll make you stop and think about life and what really matters for sure.

I've seen that one

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

There's a hard hat and a whiskey bottle in a lone tree high on a ridge above the Powder River arm of Brownlee Reservoir. Placed there by the deceased best friend. I've come across two memorials for bird dogs up in the chukar country.

 

[mtmuley]

There's a memorial in the mountains of Montana at my Father's favorite elk spot. I left his ashes too. mtmuley

 

[D4570]

We have come across entire families. Mom dad and all the kids.
1910 Measles or Spanish flu. I always wonder who buried the last one.
Very sad and somber.

 

[OntarioHunter]

We have come across entire families. Mom dad and all the kids.
1910 Measles or Spanish flu. I always wonder who buried the last one.
Very sad and somber.

I think you're referring to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. It also originated in China: coolies brought to the Western Front to dig trenches.

 

[Hem]

Any thoughts on the term "coolies" ?

 

[OntarioHunter]

Any thoughts on the term "coolies" ?

Those are Chinese laborers. The American and Canadian transcontinental railways were built primarily with Chinese coolie labour. Coolies weren't slave labor ... but not far above it. Paid pennies a day, literally.

 

[Bigjay73]

I thought coolies were where the cattle fed. Or is that Coulee? Damn English language