Just noticed this....then again, just getting back home and set up from a 4th summer camphosting up the North Fork on the North Fork of the Flathead River, bordering Glacier National Park (border halfway across the river). :face-icon-small-coo There is no power (use a generator), hand pump well for water, and only get reception on my cell phone from a purchase of an external plug in antenna (but still limited). Great place to float from (campsites right on the river, as well as a boat launch), or into. Incredible fishing.....oh my.....there are Bulltrout, Westslope Cutthroat, Rainbows, CutBows (the Rainbow which are non-native and the Cutties really seem to like each other) and Whitefish. It's about 35 miles from the Canadian Border (but no open entrance there any longer), and the Camas road of GNP is only 2.5 miles from Big Creek.
I'm Sandy......and I was around doing the Mod thing last year as well. I signed onto SW in January of 2004, but was a lurker before that. :face-icon-small-sho This is one thing I do like indoors.....SW first thing in the morning, throughout the day, and before bed. This even trumps checking the weather.
I'm married 10 years (15 together), have two sons aged 29 and 28. One is a computer programmer that handles some fairly large companies, and the other runs an automotive business. I have two beautiful Golden Retrievers, of the field variety so they are both red/dark. Our female Cassidy is 22 months and 70 lbs (extremely fit and agile, of her own doing), the *baby* (male) Drake is 9 months old and 95 lbs (he's BIG, and has been averaging 10 pounds a month). Both are from the same parents, just 12 1/2 months apart. Get an empty nest, and then come the dogs.
I was born and raised right here in NW Montana. I love the outdoors, so I live in the perfect place for year round activities outdoors. Besides my passion for sledding, I love floating the river in my personal pontoon boat. Sometimes it's just a whitewater float, sometimes fishing, sometimes both. My dogs ride on a platform that we made for the back of both of our pontoon boats, just that they wanted to both ride with me this summer. They love me......LOL.
Running the Stihl and cutting firewood is a favorite activity, tying my own flies (I have a
hot pink design that I call my Princess flies that work incredibly well up there), riding our AC 650 4wheeler (usually with 2 dogs on the back), camping (obviously), shooting/targeting, pretty much everything to do with the outdoors. I even enjoy splitting firewood.......get some pretty funny looks sometimes when the hubby is sitting sipping on a :beer; and I'm splitting wood. :face-icon-small-con
I'm active in land use issues, and avalanche education (I'm on the Board of Directors for our local Avy Center).
My current sled I've had since 2003. It's an '03 AC 1M 600 Mtn. Cat with a 153x2.25 Challenger underneath it. I'm definitely ready to move up, and have been. I still ride with the boys, I just have to ride harder. I look forward to a new machine that I don't have to muscle around so much, and which will also help me improve my skills. That day might entail having to give up the summer gig and getting a *real* job that pays.
Not quite ready to give that up yet though.
