It has been a busy summer up on the mountain, and it’s time to head back to North Dakota for harvest. It always gets a little congested with the tourist traffic around glacier, but this year was exceptional. The east half of the park was closed so we had an enormous influx of people over on the west side. Most all of the forest service trail heads had way more users then during past summers. As I drove along the highway 2 corridor on my way back to ND. I was amazed at the number of vehicles pulled off with folks camping or sleeping in their vehicle. The COVID-19 scare has people flocking to Montana from all over.

Our summer started off very wet up on the mountain. Which greatly limited areas we could access with the horses. So we spent quite a bit of time in the north fork which is A beautiful area to ride in with exceptional views.

We only had one excursion into glacier Park it was just too congested. Firebrand Pass trail opened up in July and we took a ride up there on a beautiful sunny day.

We were fortunate in July to have all of the kids and grandkids make it back to the mountain. The grandkids got a lot of horse time and also learned to shoot and fly fish.

There was only one extended back country trip this summer when the boys flew back for a quick four day three night fishing excursion. This one was definitely memorable

We did have an addition to the herd in June.We purchased nice black gelding named Dawson. He was young and didn’t have mountain experience so he didn’t get a lot of back country time. He did get out for a couple of bigger rides though and because he didn’t get to go on the pack trip I took him by himself for a trip up to Southfork of Two Medicine. This trail has numerous creek crossings and seems to be the home of numerous bears, so he got a lot of good experience

Now it’s harvest time, we’re sure hoping for a nicer weather than last year. Constant rain and couple feet of snow in early October made for a long tough harvest.