[Az-Geocaching] Who Woulda Thunk It?
Brian Casteel
listserv@azgeocaching.com
Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:42:25 -0600
Before long, Beartooth Highway will close for winter due to snow. I'm sure
Joe has seen them, but they have these bamboo poles about 12-15' tall that
line the road through the area. It's to ensure that the snowplows know
where the road ends and the mountain begins. Parts of it you can drive
through, and literally have 10' walls of snow on either side of you, and
it's eerie.
There's a cacher who is visiting his family and helping with a move,
spending 1-2 months in Cut Bank. He has several new caches in the area if
you want to check them out. I believe it's evergreenhiker, one who is
fairly active on the gc.com forums.
Don't worry about me not seeing wildlife. As soon as my friggin' lift gets
here and installed, I'll be planning some road trips to go trail riding west
of Columbus. A local Jeeper said there's some decent technicals in the
area, and I'm anxious to explore the countryside. That should give me a
chance to see more than the deer/antelope that live in the local parks. I
would love to see eagles fishing for salmon. They're such a majestic bird,
and the opportunity to see some actually living their lives would be
amazing. It's one thing to see them nesting, but an entirely different
thing when they are in predatory mode. I'll be sure to take plenty of
fall/winter pictures.
Brian
Team A.I.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Brekke" <joenveng@comcast.net>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Who Woulda Thunk It?
> As a native I can tell you that it can snow at any time, especially at
> elevation. Though I've seen it snow every month in my hometown of Cut
Bank
> which is only about 3200'. It snowed on my birthday 2 years in a row -
> that's August 13th...well known as a date of snow in most areas. In 1979
I
> got caught in a Memorial Day snowstorm. Dumped 54" of snow on Rogers
> Pass...near Lincoln and I had to stay for a couple of days there in a
local
> motel while they dug the area out. Probably only about 100 yds or so from
> where the Unibomber was hanging out, I'm not sure if he was there at the
> time though...probably not.
>
> Sometime in the next month or so Glacier Park will get enough snow to
close
> Logan Pass...at least the top of it. Brian's right about Beartooth pass,
it
> will soon be hit pretty hard as well. That is unless the drought
continues
> and it doesn't get it's usual snow. Autumn is a neat time in Montana.
It's
> a good time to go out and see a lot of wildlife as they are working to
> fatten up for the winter, particularily the bear, Grizzly and black.
> There's lots of freshwater salmon in MT lakes and streams, and they will
be
> about fishing those pretty hard to get the rich fat stored in those salmon
> just under their scales. Those lakes and streams, particularily in
Glacier
> Park and Gates of the Mountains areas are also a great place to watch Bald
> Eagles fishing for the Salmon as well. This is a truly incredible sight.
>
> Have fun Brian, I miss it. Though last week while geocaching I did walk
> besides a creek on the downslope side of the coast range east of Seaside,
> Oregon. The salmon are starting their run and the creek was really
shallow
> there, only about 4 - 5 inches deep and I was watching the salmon swimming
> up the creek. They were pretty big, about 2 feet long or so. If I had
> tried I could have walked up and scooped them up in my arms, I'm sure.
Neat
> thing to see.
>
> Your snow is our rain here, and we had about 5 days of it last week. In
> about a month and a half it will set in for good until late spring. But
it
> sure does keep things green here.
>
> Joe
> TeamBlunder
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Casteel" <bcasteel@uccinc.net>
> To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Who Woulda Thunk It?
>
>
> > The summit along Beartooth Highway got about 3' last weekend. There was
a
> > picture in the paper of two girls from CT standing on the road that had
> just
> > been plowed. It's the same area where the US Ski Team trains, and is
also
> a
> > site for extreme skiing contests. But it's supposed to hit 90 by
> Wednesday,
> > so snow is just a little ways off.
> >
> > So yeah, I'll try to UPS you some snow on dry ice when it does arrive.
> > Muahahaha....
> >
> > Brian
> > Team A.I.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marc Tamis" <webmaster@uccinc.net>
> > To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 12:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Who Woulda Thunk It?
> >
> >
> > > So, I assume you will let all of us know when the snow starts? I think
> > > we could all use some about now!
> > >
> > > Team Tierra Buena wrote:
> > >
> > > >>understand - she was paid to do this. So - not as bad as you may
> > > >>thought. Do you really think magellan would chance and bad promo
from
> > > >>this?
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >It did smell like a press release in parts, but I'm so over trying to
> > > >find anything approaching reportage in the "Redundant" that I take
> > > >anything I find in the paper with a pillar of salt.
> > > >
> > > >Steve
> > > >Team Tierra Buena
> > > >
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