For the first time in my life I had the pleasure of eating chestnuts roasted on an open fire! Holiday cheer filled the air at the annual Whitefish Christmas Stroll. Stores stayed open late and merchants offered goodies to entice shoppers inside. In the spirit of the season, shoppers pulled out their credit cards and […]
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Watch Video – Whitefish Winter Carnival
The rain let up Saturday afternoon and for the first time, we attended the Whitefish Winter Carnival parade. While Blaine Kern may make better floats, we’ve never been to a Mardi Gras parade that served pizza. Instead of being themed after old Greek gods, this parade’s theme was that all American god, war. Whitefish knows […]
Picking Wild Huckleberries on Big Mountain
It’s huckleberry picking season in Northwest Montana, and apparently not much has changed in 100 years. Year after year, each huckleberry season, people still talk about how plentiful and how large the huckleberries are. Look at what was said in the Daily Interlake in 1912. Aug. 14 – Huckleberries have been especially plentiful on the […]
Try to Remember the Advice of Mark Twain – A Dreary Day on Big Mountain
A recent Sunday afternoon found David, the girls, and I sitting in the truck – in the rain – on Big Mountain. Reluctantly, I waited for the rain to stop with the prospect of hiking the Danny On. When the rain stopped, I put on my pack and followed everyone up the sloppy trail.We were […]
The Irony of Skijoring
Skijoring articles have been jumping out at me this week. I don’t mean that they are literally jumping off the page at me, just that I have read a couple of skijoring articles. I am using irony. According to M and E’s Algebra book, The principles of Algebra explained through the eyes of Fred. they […]
Giddyap! It’s Skijoring Time
What do you get when you have a skier hang onto a rope pulled by a cowboy on a horse that’s running around a snow covered course? Skijoring of course. And they’re off! It’s Whitefish Carnival time and last Sunday’s skijoring championship brought out lots of rugged Montanans of all ages to watch the annual event. It was snowing, but the temps were […]
Hoar, Ghosts, and Pits! – Avalanche Workshop
Avalanche Workshop Begins After much anticipation, we arrived at Whitefish Mountain Resort’s base lodge. We were early for our avalanche safety workshop, and explored the brand new lodge. When we went outside again, we saw a ranger standing around a bin of snowshoes. This must be our guide we thought. The K. family was there […]