One of the best times of the year to be in Montana. The heat and crowds haven’t descended. The world is green. The mountains are starting to give up their captive snows. Just goofing off with my camera (and the girls) on a hike in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.
in HD on Vimeo.or a better version in HD (quicktime) I didn’t realize until recently that Vimeo doesn’t properly display HD video content. So, it’s choppy here. Use the Quicktime for better experience.
I shot this using my Canon 5d Mark2 SLR camera which happens to shoot video. The first shot is from the front porch. The rest are from the trail.
God Bless our wild public lands. Perhaps the greatest legacy our country has.
3:00 P.M. We hadn’t seen much game and started thinking maybe they had cleared out with the wolf’s arrival. We decided to break back down the main Stillwater trail towards Woodbine and head for the West Stillwater trailhead before we lost the light. When we arrived at the spot where the wolf had howled, I glanced to my right, across the river, half hoping he would be sitting there.
Many Plains tribes kept “winter counts,” pictographs of significant events strung together on buffalo hides and serving as a physical record of the year, a document of experience. This entry serves as the first in a series of winter counts.
4:30 A.M. Pitch black. Deep winter. Nothing but darkness and cold. Jack Ballard and I are making time up the trail before first light for an end-of-the-season deer hunt. The light from my headlamp swings back and forth, making me dizzy. I turn it off and move silently up the canyon. We’re aiming for a spot about three miles up and across the river. We want to get there before legal shooting light. Neither one of us is talking, just breathing and moving as rapid as we can. My breathing labors as we move up canyon. The gurgling sounds of the Stillwater racing down the canyon fill my ears. I’m finding my rthymn. Sweat starts forming under my hat. Read More…
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