PAT, AUSTIN, AND KILEY (and Brownie) CAME TO VISIT

Connie's sister Pat and her son Austin and his wife Kiley came up to Montana to visit us.  They brought their dog Brownie who Zeph thought was the cutest dog for miles.  We had a good visit and their stay was too short.  Skalkaho Falls and West Fork Lake were a couple of our destinations to show them a bit of the Bitterroot Valley. 

West Fork Lake looking towards the dam.

Austin, Brownie, and Kiley.

Are you sure you want to do this???

The upper part of the lake is dry.

The girls at Skalkaho Falls

Skalkaho Falls

A couple of weird pictures.

Nice buck.

BITTERROOT/SELWAY WILDERNESS AREA

Connie and I jumped in the jeep and drove up the Magruder road to the Selway ranger station and also up to Hells Half Acre lookout.  Had not been in that country for years.  Lots and lots of country let me tell you.

What an area.

The ranger station where the road crosses the Selway River.

The top of the sign is mostly gone but says that Hells Half Acre Lookout is 5 miles up the road.

They had a big storm go through a week or so ago at the same time we had one down in the valley and it washed out a lot of the roads.

This is where we ate lunch on the way up to the lookout.

There have been a lot of fires in the wilderness.

This is one drainage that they had to shore up to to put back the road.

Still lots of whitetails even in our corrals.

Lots of bugs on the flowers.

Connie riding Peg.