4K City Walks: Butte, Montana Virtual Treadmill Walking Tour No. 2
Had a job in Butte, Montana and I was able to get a couple walks in. This 2nd one is from Montana Tech to uptown Butte, where most of the old buildings are located. Butte has fallen on hard times the last couple of decades but was once known as the Richest Hill on Earth for its copper mines and the fortunes it made. It still has it's 19th Century charm even if some of the paint has chipped. Butte residents are a tough lot though and they still have many events and activities throughout the year. Give yourself a treat if you are near the junction of I-90 and i-15. It's definitely worth a stop.
From Wikipedia:
Butte is the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km2), and, according to the 2010 census, has a population of 33,503, making it Montana's fifth largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM.
Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana's first major industrial city. In its heyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.
Over the course of its history, Butte's mining and smelting operations generated an excess of $48 billion worth of ore, but also resulted in numerous environmental implications for the city: The upper Clark Fork River, with headwaters at Butte, is the largest Superfund site in the United States, and the city is also home to the Berkeley Pit. In the late-twentieth century, cleanup efforts from the EPA were instated, and the Butte Citizens Technical Environmental Committee was established in 1984. In the 21st century, efforts at interpreting and preserving Butte's heritage are addressing both the town's historical significance and the continuing importance of mining to its economy and culture. The city's Uptown Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States, containing nearly 6,000 contributing properties. The city is also home to Montana Tech, a public engineering and technical university.
Prior to Butte's formal establishment in 1864, the area consisted of a mining camp that had developed in the early 1860s. The city is located in the Silver Bow Creek Valley (or Summit Valley), a natural bowl sitting high in the Rockies straddling the Continental Divide,positioned on the southwestern side of a large mass of granite known as the Boulder Batholith, which dates to the Cretaceous era. In 1864, William L. Farlin founded the Asteroid Mine (subsequently known as the Travona); Farlin's founding of the Asteroid Mine attracted a significant number of prospectors seeking gold and silver. The mines attracted workers from Cornwall Ireland & Wales, Lebanon, Canada, Finland, Austria, Italy, China, Montenegro, Mexico, and more. In the ethnic neighborhoods, young men formed gangs to protect their territory and socialize into adult life, including the Irish of Dublin Gulch, the Eastern Europeans of the McQueen Addition, and the Italians of Meaderville.
The influx of miners gave Butte a reputation as a wide-open town where any vice was obtainable. The city's saloon and red-light district, called the Line or The Copper Block, was centered on Mercury Street, where the elegant bordellos included the famous Dumas Brothel. Behind the brothel was the equally famous Venus Alley, where women plied their trade in small cubicles called cribs. The red-light district brought miners and other men from all over the region and remained open until 1982 after the closure of the Dumas Brothel; the city's red-light was one of the last such urban districts in the United States. Commercial breweries first opened in Butte in the 1870s, and were a large staple of the city's early economy; they were usually run by German immigrants, including Leopold Schmidt, Henry Mueller, and Henry Muntzer. The breweries were always staffed by union workers. Most ethnic groups in Butte, from Germans and Irish to Italians and various Eastern Europeans, including children, enjoyed the locally brewed lagers, bocks, and other types of beer
Virtual treadmill walk video - #virtualtreadmill #virtualwalk #citywalks
These videos are great for treadmill walking scenery. Getting good health at the gym while traveling to different and special virtual locations.
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Filmed this one on the DJI Osmo Pocket
Brown Bag Lunch with Steve Lozar about Beer, Breweries, and Butte
Steve Lozar speaks about the very unique history of marketing the beer produced by breweries in Butte beginning in the 1860’s. He touches on its ties to Butte's ethnic neighborhoods, bringing a fascinating anthropological view to the study of the liquid bread.'
Steve “Bubs” Lozar was born in St. Ignatius, Montana. An enrolled member and former Tribal Councilman of Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Lozar is also the great-grandson of Slovenian brewing immigrants. A man of many talents, he is a Graduate Anthropologist, legal historic water rights researcher, and the owner of Montana’s oldest screen printing and embroidery business. Lozar is a lifelong collector of Montana brewery history and breweriana and a frequent public speaker on all aspects of Montana brewing history. He also plays hockey.
Brown Bag Lunches are held the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month. Upcoming lectures will focus topics of local interest. For more information, contact the Archives at 782-3280.
Traveling to Glacier National Park from Yellowstone | MOTM Vlog #65
In this episode we leave west yellowstone and drive up through Bigsky, Bozeman, Butte and Missoula Montana.
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When the Beer Ran Dry
Of all the changes that took place in the Treasure State in the years following World War I, the most painful for some was Prohibition. Montana’s statewide ban began at 12:01 a.m. on December 31, 1918, well ahead of the national injunction. Steve Lozar shares the story of Prohibition’s impact on the Treasure State’s breweries and saloons. Lozar is an MHS trustee; member of the Salish, Kootenai, and Assiniboine tribes; great-grandson of an East Helena Prohibition-era “home brewer”; and proprietor of the Montana Beer Museum in Polson.
Windy Hill - Tally Ho in Butte, MT - Aug 19, 2013
The hounds are loose! West Coast bluegrass band Windy Hill with a live (and lively!) performance of Tally Ho from Butte-America's premiere music venue, The Silver Dollar Saloon. Ryan Breen: banjo, vocals; Kyle McCabe: upright bass; Thomas Wille: guitar, vocals.
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Big Timber 1/23/2010 - Chug It....
I was almost certain there would be puking.....
CBMBA Cement Creek Overnight
The oldest mountain biking club in the world, the Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association, hosts a trail work overnight. This video is from 9/10-9/11/2011 up Cement Creek outside of Crested Butte, Colorado. A huge group turned out and Rim Tours catered the event - with New Belgian Brewery throwing down for the beers.
One day in Crested Butte - Jul 2010
In the summer of 1993, I decided that I had had my fill of summer vacations on Fire Island and the Hamptons. One child was out of college and working in the real world, while the other two were at a sleep-away camp for most of the summer. Meanwhile, my wife diplomatically observed that if she had to leave Manhattan, it didn't matter if she was in the Hamptons or Siberia ... and since I had spent much of my childhood in the western part of the U.S., I decided to look around in Colorado for a nice vacation spot.
I eventually spent a week in Crested Butte, and a week in Ouray, and you can find the pictures from those visits in my massive Flickr archives. While the scenery was spectacular, I eventually concluded that the area was too crowded and over-run by tourists, visitors, and owners of summer/retirement/ski homes. So, during subsequent summers, I ended up in other parts of the country...
17 years later, in the summer of 2010, I decided to come back ... partly because I was curious to see whether the back roads and wilderness areas had been transformed into shopping malls, and partly because I wanted to see if I could do a better job of photographing the landscape than I had been able to do in the early 90s. The technology of photography had evolved, of course, from film to digital; and I thought I might be at least a little more experienced in the art of capturing mountain scenes...
My travel schedule was too restricted to venture down to the southwestern area of the state around Ouray; I basically had only two full days to see as much of the Crested Butte region as possible. Unsurprisingly, the town itself had become more crowded; and there seemed to be many more condos and ski chalets up in the ski valley. But once outside of the town itself, I was delighted to see that almost nothing had changed. The dirt roads were still unpaved; there were no gas stations or fast-food outlets; there were no beer cans, trash, or other obvious signs of pollution along the roads; and the mountains looked just as pristine as ever.
I took a few photos on the drive from Ponchas Springs to Gunnison, and up highway 135 to Crested Butte, which I did not include in this video -- but most of the pictures were taken in the region around Crested Butte itself. One morning, I drove east of the ski village, on a dirt road that led through the biological research station of Gotham and up into the mountains toward Emerald Lake; that afternoon, I drove south to Gunnison, and then west on Highway 50, along the Blue Mesa Reservoir and the Back Canyon, almost all the way to Montrose. And on the second morning, I took a different dirt road out of Crested Butte, westwards over the Kebler Pass, skirting the Paonia Reservoir, and then along highways 133 and 92 to Hotchkiss - before reversing direction, and driving back the same way to reach Crested Butte again.
Altogether, I took about 350 photos during all of this driving around. For someone using a digital camera, that doesn't really sound like much ... but these were all 5-image, handheld HDR composites, so it took a lot more effort than the usual snap-snap-snap kind of photography that I typically do in an urban street photography environment. I boiled all of this down to 75 keepers, some of which are current-vintage replicas of the same scenes that I photographed in 1993 ...
I may go back again someday, but I must admit that I don't feel a compelling need to do so at this point. Sooner or later, there probably *will* be a Starbuck's or Pizza Hut or McDonald's on one of those back-country dirt roads ... but I hope it will be long after I have disappeared from the scene altogether.
Sage Creek campground - Pryor Mountains, Montana
We took Jack on his first camping trip and he did great!
I (Shane) had always wanted to check out the Pryor mountains, because it's such an interesting looking range from Carbon County. I was glad that we were able to take some time and get up into the high country.
It was really much more lush than I had expected it to be. A lot of that area is in the rain shadow of the Beartooth Mountains - the highest mountains in Montana, and so there is a lot of dry land out there. Well, Sage Creek campground did not disappoint!
While we were up there, we checked out this big ice cave called... Big Ice Cave, lol.
Thanks for checking out the video. Let us know if you have suggestions for areas around Montana that you would like to see us feature here on Adventures of Shane and Laura!
On.. My USA Road Trip - Part 2 - Mt. Shasta, CA to Vancouver, BC
Since I last saw you I've been to the North-West corner of the U.S. on a working holiday. While I was there I tried to explore and capture a little bit of the culture on my i-phone for you all to see the differences from ours (certainly different from my Indian culture trip) in a kind of Video Diary format. My good friend Dan has edited together all the footage I shot and made a smooth travelogue split into three 1hour chunks. This is part 2.
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In this part we take aboard some melt water from Mt. Shasta before returning North - through Weed, Springfield and Eugene in Oregon; then striking out West for the Pacific Ocean. The road to the ocean is long, so we are more than glad to see the beach and kick our shoes off. After all that driving it's time to rest up in a motel room which boasts a real fire, in a small coastal town called Yachats. They have a superb video library there, and a few problems with Bears. After all that healthy food I just fancy a beer and a pizza. What a choice! Then it's back to Bellingham non-stop!
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Handing back our rental car I find myself back in Bellingham for a few days. We check out the craft shop and the co-op, and visit an ancient section of railway line hidden in a corner of the town. I send out my youtube video blog in front of the hazy evening sunshine - the perfect time for sungazing before the off.
0:25:34 - 0:52:21
We take Elizabeths' station wagon North over the border into Canada; where we are joined by Kathleen (who kindly promoted my Canadian event) and Maria (one of my students) in Vancouver. We take a trip along the coast road into town and discover the city beach, before heading up to the flats where Kathleen lives - which commands a stunning view of the city. Next is The Centre for Spiritual Living; where we also catch a glimpse of some my students on their final day of training. I find an organic grocery store in Marpole, eat in various places, take a ride on the trolley bus, and explore a smoke shop; before performing a water ceremony (using Mt. Shasta water) at Kitts Point overlooking English Bay - joining similar events all over the world.
NOTES:
. This is just a 'walkabout' glimpse; a sketch of the areas I visit. My shamanistic events don't feature prominently in these videos - even though they are going on between filming. If you'd like to book me I am of course available worldwide.
We're Changing Our Name
To all CFB Family and Friends:
We'd like to announce an unexpected change coming to our brewery. We recently learned that the words Crooked Furrow have been trademarked by an out-of-state distillery in 2018. We were made aware of this in July of this year, despite through research a couple years back on whether or not the name had been trademarked or not.
So, in the spirit of good will and in alignment with our Core Values of our brand here at the brewery, we've decided to re-name to Copper Furrow Brewing.
This name change now reflects each of our three founding families holistically. The copper in our name refers to our third co-founder's roots from Butte, Montana. We now feel that, in-spite of the pain of changing the name, we are excited that our new one encompasses all of our founding families Montana heritage.
We will continue to push forward, guided by our core values:
- Provide the best beer that we possibly can
- Provide an atmosphere of fun and family
- Provide the best customer service as possible.
Thank you!
Copper Furrow Brewing Founders
Club Moderne Fire Aftermath
NBC ENG interviews owners daughter the morning after the fire that devastated the Club Moderne in Anaconda, Montana.
Western Inn Motel in Billings MT
Prices: . . . . . . . .. .. ... . . . . Western Inn Motel 3311 2nd Avenue North Billings MT 59101 This motel is in downtown Billings, Montana and offers free shuttle service to Billings Logan International Airport. The Montana Brewing Company and local cafes are less than one mile away. Free Wi-Fi is provided in all rooms. A flat-screen TV with cable and HBO is included in the guest rooms at the Western Inn Motel. A microwave, refrigerator, and coffee maker are provided. The front desk of this pet-friendly motel is open 24 hours a day and a continental breakfast is served in the mornings. Laundry facilities are on site. The Hilands Golf Club is a 5 minute drive from Motel Western Inn.
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On Tap: Montana
Follow Zane Lamprey as he discovers the best brews of Montana. This time, check out fly fishing in Helena and the best of Lewis and Clark Brewing Company.
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