MONTANA GRIZZLIES - SATURDAY 1 P.M. (SORRY, TIME WARNER CABLE)
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Saw a bit of their last game vs. Washington on local TV. The young Huskies team doesn’t play much defense but didn’t have a problem beating the Griz.
Thanks for the photos…Glacier National Park is one of my favorite vacation spots. Also the first time I ever saw a bear in the wild. Last time I was there I hiked a trail across the border into Canada’s Waterton Provincial Park. (This was just before 9/11, so I don’t know if that trail is still open.) Even for non-hkers, the drive on Going-To-The-Sun Road is spectacular.
A lot of the glaciers there are melting, though…gotta get back soon.
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You were perhaps taking my playfulness more seriously than intended, but you are nonetheless likely correct, though @JayHawkFanToo raises an interesting insight also.
Regardless lets collect some grizzly claws and beat Montana!!!
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Montana was in my top 5 states to look for work when I retired from the AF. That is until I met a lady from Nawlins a year before I retired. After I retired we tried Calif, Kansas and South Carolina before ending up down here in her home in da bayou’s of Louisiana. Once you taste the NW US, including Alaska, the rest of the country is like ground beef.
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Glacier National Park
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@wrwlumpy Thanks again for the photos…brings back lots of memories.
When you take the Amtrak train Empire Builder west from Chicago during the summer, it goes through the park right around sunset.
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That is the one train ride I have been hoping to take…if I ever get enough free time…
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She jokingly told me to look her up when I became “rich and famous”. I’m still trying on that…
Becoming rich and famous or looking her up?
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Awesome pictures!
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@wrwlumpy - I was going to post some scenic photos of the State of KANSAS, but since the photo’s are kind of your thing, would you oblige us? And some famous Kansas alum?
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That scenery near Missoula is absolutely fantastic. Returning from spectating the US Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, 1976, I observed and spoke with dozens of bicyclists who were peddling the Bike America Trail from West Coast, many of them heading to Canada for the summer Olympics. I exchanged my daily running shoes for a 12 speed bike, did lots of research, then headed westward again the next summer for a 2400 mile bike ride, Winchester Bay, Oregon, to KC. Spectacular scenic memories, even tho I did not tote a camera. Lumpy’s photos stir recall. If I were possessed of the chance to rewrite my years, I would probably opt for graduate work somewhere out west, most probably U. of Montana. (As a side note, a famous American who at one time was known as Bruce Jenner won the decathlon in those Olympic Trials.)
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Great job!
Hard to compete with those awesome nature shots you posted.
But when I think of Montana, the first thing popping into my head is Butte-born, Robert Craig Knievel. The infamous “Evel Knievel.”
I have several scars because of Evel… his influence was big on dumb, young guys like myself, flying high off of ramps and hills on my first dirt bike.
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@drgnslayr a lot of pics of dumb!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Testosterone RULES!
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@JayHawkFanToo Well, I wasn’t exactly sure how to process that at the time. It was the only time we got to talk on the phone. I knew it would be years before the “rich and famous” could even be possible, and being young and 21 and single…I realized I was the initiator more than she was, so I gave a period to allow her to initiate, she didn’t. I moved on. I think I called a year later, but only got her friend, left a msg. Never got a call back. But then, we were really just friends getting to know each other, certainly not a longtime couple. Wondered about it for quite a while.
Met my wife about 8yrs later, and that was 20yrs ago…
I think it is only natural, though to wonder what happened to somebody. And maybe to think of her when I see “Montana”, as she is the only person I’ve known from Montana.
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Well, its 12:48, I’m at work in way western KS, and this game is BLACKED OUT “in my area” on ESPN3. Would have been nice to watch it live. I dvr’d it back home near Wichita on Cox22, so I’ll watch the game T-u-e-s-d-a-y…(sigh…money talks to Sheahon Zenger, and its not my level of $, clearly. Oh, I can spin it on Zenger’s behalf, and say it is about proving to another conference that KU’s TV market share has been taken to a wider mkt beyond KS, and maybe he is generating the TV sets to do it? I have no idea really. Just mad that I cannot see the game. In Kansas.)
Part of the reason, I hate to admit, that I do not take calls from KU telemarketers, despite being alumni. And a former WmsFund member. Not interested in tickets, as I can sit halfcourt, low rows anytime with Stubhub tickets, if I want better than the TV experience.
On the other hand, I cannot gripe too much, as living near Wichita, I do get every game televised, since I have cox cable, who carries the TimeWarner stuff. I know other KU folks may not get all the games if they have dish. The big-mkt TV bias has really come HOME to roost, eh?
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Yes, indeed. I know several people that after decades met their younger days sweethearts and had good endings. I recently got a call from my HS girlfriend who found me though LinkedIn. She has been living in Italy and France for the last 30 years and wants me to come visit her in France…I am still pondering about this…
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@JayHawkFanToo Wow! I’m curious what you may decide to do…and how it goes. Obviously there could be variables affecting such decisions…
RCJH
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@JayHawkFanToo Go, G0, G0. !
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@wrwlumpy I vote go too! Life’s short. I’m assuming there are no spouses involved.
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No current spouse to worry about…but I kind of like my life very uncomplicated like it is now…:)
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@JayHawkFanToo you don’t have to marry her!
