July 13, 2019
I will never tire of Montana. After all these years there is something so engrained in my being that the draw to return is impossible to ignore. Woodbine and Woodbine Falls are my God places. 
The pig races have become a tradition. Go figure.
https://www.tourdesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/img_1479-4.movI was lucky enough to win the lottery for concert tickets at Tippet Rise. This time enjoyed an ensemble under the art installation called the Domo.
The Anaconda Smelter Stack is the tallest surviving masonry structure in the world with an overall height of about 585′. It is a brick smoke stack or chimney, built in 1918 as part of the Washoe Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Anaconda, Montana.
Missoula, MT
“If you will give it a home, and promise no one will ever take it apart, I will build a Carousel for Missoula.” That was the promise Missoula cabinet-maker Chuck Kaparich made to the Missoula City Council in 1991. Kaparich, who had spent many childhood hours on carousels purchased an antique frame in thousands of pieces.
A board of directors was formed to facilitate organization and fund raising. Kaparich taught others to carve, painters were recruited and Missoula began the process of restoring 16,066 pieces of the antique frame and motor to create this treasure.
Smokejumpers Museum
Smokejumping was developed as a means of quickly reaching, parachuting to, and attacking fires in remote roadless areas. The primary mission of smokejumpers is firefighting. We spent hours touring the museum and interacting with the actual smokejumpers in their daily routines. I am in awe of their bravery and strength.
Garden of 1,000 Buddha’s
In a tranquil pasture in the beautiful Jocko Valley of Montana, stands a Buddha garden dedicated to peace, a childhood vision of Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche.
As a child, Rinpoche envisioned 1,000 Buddhas and 1,000 stupas lining the walls of a dharmachakra, an eight-spoked wheel representing the noble eightfold path, one of the original teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni.
Flathead Lake – Kalispel, MT
Carefully approaching the Canadian border we made sure to get rid of food and alcohol so not to have issues with our crossing. At Roosville Montana handed over our passports only to be told that Arnie’s had expired. WTF!!
He let us in WHEW!
Alberta, Canada
Kootenay National Park, British Columbia
Lake Louise
Banff
Emerald Lake
Yoho National Park
8-18 Between Anaconda and Phillipsburg -Georgetown Lake – Lodgepole Campground $7.50
8-19 Kalispel – Greenwood Village RV Park $42.
8-20 Rexford Bench Campground-Eureka MT $6
Heid Out for lunch in Cranbrook- Canada
8-21 McLeod Meadows Campground Canada $21.50 Canadian currency
Maple leaf brunch in Banff
Park Distillery dinner
8-22 Wapiti campground – Canmore CA $37 Canadian currency
Lunch in Field
8-23 Hoodoo Trail campground – outside Field $16.50 Canadian currency
Brunch in Golden at Whitetooth Bistro
8-25 Wasa provincial park – Wasa lake $30 Canadian currency
