MT Biker: January 2021

Woody Falls in Cooke City

The Struggle is Real:
Putting the lace back in pointe shoes
is a struggle all dance parents know.

Sheep Creek Falls.
Rose hiked all four local falls in one day.

Part of homeschool: learning about
political cartoons. Rose did this one.

Rose's first big dance performance. Pre Covid

Our 2020 Christmas Tree

At the height of the Covid Toilet paper crisis of March 2020
Vinnie reacted strangely: he started hoarding toilet paper.
It was like he knew or something. He stopped doing it
in the summer and never started again. So strange.

From Chief Joseph pass looking north into the valley.

Secret entrance to the Back Nine area in Billings.

Town Hill in Cooke City, as seen from inside MontAsia

Top of Woody Falls. Rose wanted to do a midnight hike.
We went up for a half mile or so after this, and then turned around.
The three mile hike home was through the dark wilderness on a windy night.
It was scary, awesome fun. We saved Vinnie from a porcupine too.

Tomato Can Gulch, from a motorcycle ride in October

Crazy Mountains from North of Big Timber

On Lana's first really crazy offroading mission.
We were up in Sunlight Basin. This herd of horses surrounded me for ever.

Stillwater River, Fall geocaching mission

Grove Creek area, family walk with Rose

Part of the many menu changes we made this year due to Covid.
We offered Steak Frites with grass fed steak from a friend's ranch.

Taking Lana over the ice and through the snow up in the mountains. Fall

Snow at a peaceful Riverfront Park in Billings. October

Looking west over Silver Gate from Cooke City watertower


Silver Falls in Silver Gate, late summer Part of Rose's Four Falls in One Day Hike

Covid Lockdown Fatbike Cruise, Stillwater County Style
March 2020

Taking Shrek to work. 11 Miles each way over
Colter Pass to a Chamber meeting.

Sheep Creek Falls

Looking back to Pilot and Index from Sheep Basin


One reason we closed Wed's in 2020: family hiking days. This was one of our best. Great weather, me, Rose, Vinnie

My view for 14 hours a day every summer

Way up a jeep road in Stillwater country
found a cool geocache up here

Stillwater River up above Horseman Flats

Rosebud Basin

On top of Woody Creek Falls

Riverfront Park in Billings early fall

Christmas tree in the wild, below the rims in Billings

Vinnie posing with the Virgin Mary above Billings

The Playground in Billings, cool biking area

The Palisades, Beartooth Front in Wyoming

It was a Zoom Nutcracker. So 2020.
Rose rocked the house.


Stillwater County Biathalon: gravel for 40 miles 100 rounds at the range. This was before the country ran out of ammo.

Another summer at the salt mines

Mineral Mountain, Cooke City

Found it!
One of my jeep road missions with Lana,
I came upon this little wonder:
Lee City
It's an abandoned mining camp. Ruins.
I figure I can claim it now and homestead there.


The major home improvement project of the year: replaced the ghetto front pallet fence with a real deal deer-proof front garden fence.

Grove Creek swimming hole

One of the most remote geocaches I've ever found.
This one hadn't been touched in five years.
Great motorcycle ride after this, up and over a crazy jeep pass.

Crazy Mountain view, from west of Rapelje

Cool desert oasis outside of Cody

Evergreen foliage, Billings

Beartooth Front in the last of the California &
Oregon smog in September.

Meeteetse Jeep Road.
Part of the old army trail from Meeteetse to Bozeman.


Rose was in three pieces this day, and she won an award for selling raffle tickets.

Those heady, wild, pre-covid days of March!

Lone Tree Hill in Wyoming, on a geocaching mission with Lana

As I got closer to Lone Tree, a huge eagle took off and lumbered away.
It flew like a Boeing it was so big. You could hear it moving air with each flap.