If you had told me that there would be two (small) quakes in Cascade County within 60 hours, I might not have believed you. But here we are: www.krtv.com/news/great-f...

The new Montana Heritage Center is a credit to we the people of Montana. It is so well done. 👏 to everyone who made it possible. Go see it!

The #NorthernLights in Great Falls, #Montana

Happy #MountainMonday #Sunrise from Glacier National Park #imageandverse #nationalparks #BlueskyMonday #artyear #Scape Joy is not a visitor here; it belongs to the mountains and comes upon us when we stop resisting them. -Muir

This weekend's cross-country skiing took us up Camas Road for the views of snowy Mt Brown (L) and Mt Edwards (R). The clouds broke over our head to bathe us and the scenery with sunlight. Glacier National Park #nationalparks #montana #skiing #glacier #winter2026 #parkchat #landscapes

Nature put on a show with last night's alpenglow. Wish I'd been on the shore of Lake McDonald to experience it in person. Instead, we just soaked up the lesser colors from nearby. Photo from Glacier NP webcam last night. #nationalparks #sunsets #Montana #Glacier

I read about 90 books this year, fewer than last year but lots of thick ones. I worked in a lot of Africa and France books and did the Taylor Swift reading challenge (a bingo square playing off themes from her music). These were my favorites:

On this 18° December day, Giant Springs State Park was steaming in the rare sunshine. I watched a duck slide down the cascades into the Missouri River. Lots of Canada geese flying above us. This makes 12/12 months in 2025 visiting this treasured spot in #Montana.

Throwing it back a decade to this special story from Great Falls, MT and a lonely tree that inspired a woman going through cancer treatment - and many other travelers along I-15 gftrib.com/1Qrxzpb

“The war was one hour in, and we’d already lost it.” - Clair Boggs, my grand-uncle, on #PearlHarborDay. He was a great guy. #USSArizona #wwiihistory

“He’s always at work from six to two, so she’s good in the morning,” said McAtee. “And then dinner comes and nighttime is horrible because she just screams for him. She looks for him. And I don’t know what to tell her.”

Happy #ForestFriday Glacier National Park —North Fork where meadow, forest, and mountain meet. #nationalparks #wilderness #artyear #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin

Mid-December is the annual opening for hopping a snowcoach into Old Faithful for a couple days of skiing or snowshoeing in the Upper Geyser Basin. So wild with copious steam spewing from every pore in the landscape. Yellowstone National Park #nationalparks #skiing #winter #snowshoe #winterfun

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃

#Thankful for a year of adventure on public lands in Montana!

Went through security with an older lady whose bag was inspected because she had a rolling pin. “I ain’t baking without my own stuff, sweetheart” she sweetly told the tsa guy

Another minute of #Zen sitting by the shore of #Bowman Lake Glacier National Park watching the skies fade into darkness #nature #nationalparks #parkchat what surprises me most is although there were 50 or so people camping nearby I was alone to enjoy this Sound up!!!

A banner day for our period products supply drive in Great Falls, #Montana. Thanks to everyone who took part!

In tribute to our waning larch season in western Montana, this pic shows how their needles turn gold in fall which almost makes them look lit from within. The needles will all drop in the next several weeks, leaving them looking like skeletons until spring. #blueskyartshow #bright

My favorite Norman Maclean quote:

If you are able, please consider donating. It's hard enough being a teenager, but I can't imagine what it's like when you don't have access to your very basic needs.

We are doing a fundraiser for Alliance for Youth's Youth Resource Center in Great Falls, MT. This center helps provide items, including hygiene and food, to vulnerable kids. We would be so grateful for your help. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... ❤️❤️❤️

Kintla Lake #evening picture Glacier National Park September’23 #blueskyartshow #artyear #scape #nationalparks

Road trip to the Yaak last week. Montana just showing off 😘

🌾 The best farming advice…

Trees to add and more fiddling around to do … but the #ChristmasVillage is back up in my house!

Giant Springs State Park in Great Falls, #Montana on the first day of November

The weather has held, so I took my two best pups to the mountains today for a romp. #RockyMountainFront #Montana

We've filed 'The Montana Plan' with the Montana SOS. This is your Constitutional Initiative to make Citizens United irrelevant by simply removing a corporation's power to spend in elections.

No Kings rally in Havre, #Montana pic from a Hi-Line friend.

I'm gonna make a thread of posts from #NoKings rallies from around Montana because I am so inspired, I want to find them again and again easily. Let's start with West Yellowstone, with a year-round population of 1200. I counted 130 ppl! #MtPol bsky.app/profile/publ...

Polebridge, Montana, and the surrounding North Fork area only has around 100 full-time residents. On Saturday, the hamlet on the edge of Glacier National Park saw more than 60 people attend a No Kings Indivisible rally at the dirt road intersection.

No Kings rally in Helena, #Montana drew an estimated 2,500 protesters today.

The Blackleaf Canyon of the Rocky Mountain Front in #Montana.

Yoho National Park was good to us. #ParksCanada

I went biking and leaf peeping in my city today.

Fall among #Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front.

Found a ceratopsian skull today in the Judith! This is the tip of the squamosal *upper corner of the frill) with a big episquamosal fused solidly on, so definitely from an adult animal. 🦖🧪

Fun on the Front. We took the pups out to Cataract Falls near Augusta, #Montana.

On this day some years ago, I popped into East Glacier after a snowfall and saw a guy in a pith helmet on a penny farthing. He eventually did make it up and over Logan Pass and onward across the country. #pennyfarthing #glaciernationalpark #montana

The USFS Strawberry Lookout near Helena, #Montana

Even with the smoke, it was great to be in Glacier National Park this afternoon.

If you are used to backpacking, a USFS lookout seems like posh living!

A year ago today, I woke up along the Firehole River in #Yellowstone National Park after a lovely trek to Shoshone Lake. (This year I had to have a toenail removed instead 🫩). With nearly 500 geothermal features, Shoshone Geyser Basin is the largest backcountry geyser area in Yellowstone.

Took a quick, simple, cheap trip to #Yellowstone with my bike and my dog. Camped and shared s’mores with a young mom from the Philippines, a Wyoming Latino, an Israeli guy on a tip-to-tip tour of the Americas, and two toddlers. A dream weekend.

Ok I guess it was a good idea to take a sunset hike at Logan Pass to the Hidden Lake overlook 🤩 #GlacierNationalPark #Montana #parkchat

The jagged eroded layers of an ancient seabed that moved to this location by uplift are prominent on the side of Sinopah Mountain. Winter avalanches scour the drainages. Glacier National Park #BlueSkyArtShow #Jagged #nationalparks #Glacier #mountains

I’m not saying my friends and I are nerdy … but we did do slide deck presentations for funsies on our last gals trip. I shared a slice of #WorldWarII history.

Highline Trail above Going to the Sun Road Masterpieces of the National Parks roads and trails network. Truly! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖼🫶 #Glacier #NationalParks #Parkchat #Photography #Hiking #Nature #Travel #Montana #Roadtrip #PublicLands

I’m at the History Museum in Great Falls, MT for today’s presentation “Remains to be Seen: Relics of Great Falls Demolitions.” The museum’s collection includes a cornerstone from the YMCA, torn down and replaced by a now-closed Hardees.