Club Moderne Fire Aftermath
NBC ENG interviews owners daughter the morning after the fire that devastated the Club Moderne in Anaconda, Montana.
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.
Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home (1976)
Directed by Montana author/filmmaker Annick Smith, the film traces Hugo's life from his grim childhood, through his experiences as a bombardier in World War II, to his creative writing professorship at the University of Montana.. With intimate moments from Hugo's life, the film intricately ties his writings to the western places he loves the most: saloons, fishing holes, abandoned towns, and a home in Rattlesnake Canyon. The rhythms, emotions, humor and rollicking language of Montana's greatest poet comes alive to audiences who never had the good luck of knowing him in person.
RICHARD HUGO: KICKING THE LOOSE GRAVEL HOME is available here for the very first time in full 1080p HD, created directly from an original 16mm print of the film.
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Producer/director/writer Annick Smith has written numerous books and screenplays. She was a co-producer of the film A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, directed by Robert Redford, and a founding board member of Redford's Sundance Institute. She was executive producer of the film HEARTLAND (based on her novel of the same title). Other books include BIG BLUESTEM, and IN THIS WE ARE NATIVE. She also co-edited an anthology of Montana writing, THE LAST BEST PLACE. Her essays have appeared in numerous national journals such as AUDUBON, OUTSIDE, and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Smith lives in Montana with her partner, the writer William Kittredge.
Dakota Street Fire
BUTTE - Firefighters can certainly take the heat, but Butte firefighters also showed during an early Tuesday morning house fire that they have to take the cold as well. “Yeah, think it was close to 10 below about the time that fire came in down there. So, it definitely presents some challenges,” said Butte Fire Chief Jeff Miller. Butte’s paid firefighters and volunteers from Race Track endured the subzero temperatures while fighting this fire at a vacant residence
Southern Oregon Wheelin'
Just Me and Some Friends Getting Muddy!! No Place Like So. Or-Gun !! Get Out and Wheel !! SORRY only took pics when stopped 4 beer.... Other Vids Coming, not slides!
More Screwin Around Afterhours Oregon Offroad
Took a bit of work and breakin an axle but made it across
Jeffrey City - Main Street, Wyoming
The history of Jeffrey City, Wyoming from its early days when it was called “Home on the Range” through its boom years to its bust days when the new high school that was built but never opened for classes, businesses shut down, and many of the buildings were auctioned off.
Canoeing the Great Plains – A Missouri River Summer, by Patrick Dobson
Big Muddy Speakers Series (Kansas City) hosted by
Healthy Rivers Partnership ( in cooperation with
Missouri River Relief and Friends of Lakeside Nature Center
at the Westport Coffeehouse Theater (
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
Tired of an unfulfilled life in Kansas City, Missouri, Patrick
Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains.
After two and a half months, 1,450 miles, and numerous encounters
with the people of the heartland, Patrick arrived in Helena,
Montana. He then set a canoe on the Missouri and asked the river
to carry him safely back to Kansas City, hoping this enigmatic
watercourse would help reconnect him with his life.
Patrick will discuss his new book Canoeing the Great Plains: A
Missouri River Summer and a journey undertaken nearly 20 years
ago that proved to be transformative. Dobson, a novice canoeist
when he begins his trip, faces the Missouri at a time of
dangerous flooding and must learn to trust himself to the
powerful flows of the river and its stark and serenely beautiful
countryside. He meets a cast of characters along the river who
assist him both with the mundane tasks of canoeing—portaging
around dams and reservoirs and finding campsites—and with his own
personal transformation. Mishaps, mistakes, and misadventures
plague his trip, but over time the river shifts from being a
frightening adversary to a welcome companion.dobson
Patrick Dobson, PhD, is a writer, historian, and ironworker. When
not teaching at Johnson County Community College, where he is an
adjunct associate professor, he works as a bridge builder doing
structural, reinforcing, and ornamental ironwork.
Videography by Kansas City Digital Video.
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Launching Cars Off a Cliff for 4th of July, Alaska Reality NO Hollywood Drama
Cars will fly on the 4th of July in Glacierview, Alaska. We hang out with The Alaska Life and celebrate the Fourth of July the Alaskan way (because there is too much daylight for fireworks).
Mt. Jefferson The Table - Cascade Trekker 2010
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This was a spectacular trip near the end of the backpacking season. I started by searching for a backcountry route from the end of a rugged logging road near the headwaters of Red Creek. Once before from the Pacific Crest Trail I noticed a very faint trail running down the ridge in that direction. So I decided to try and piece together the gap. Little to my surprise I found a maintained trail at the top of the last clearcut that led along the ridgeline. It was quite nice because it was dry and warm here and I remember many cat droppings. Within a very short time I found the PCT and started hiking South. Very quickly I hiked the five miles to Mud and Shale Lakes. The views were so inviting but I had stayed here many times and wanted to try something new. I had always wanted to camp at Table Lake and that was my destination for the night. So I keep going along the sides of Cathedral Rocks to the saddle above Hunt's Cove. I knew the area quite well and decided to break away from the trail cutting through some trees to another grassy meadow which started to step down in the direction I wanted to go. Soon I was following a rustic hunting trail through the steep rocky terrain. I had the Table in sight and knew that all I had to do was get to the east side to find the lake. There were cairns along the way and in spots a well worn trail. I was eventually in some meadows again and just followed my instinct to another trail and then I was at the lake very near the end of the day. After 10 miles of very rough hiking with a full pack I had a little trouble finding a decent spot to set the tent. All of the surround grass was in muddy, damp ground and I was trying to locate the tent to catch the rising sun. I found a decent dry spot but to my dismay the sun hit only the narrow isthmus where I didn't want to camp because it looked over used. The morning was cold with ice on my tent and motivation was lower than the clouds. The few sun breaks raise my spirits and accent the orange and purple hues of the fall foliage. I think at this point I decide not to try the loop because one night exposed to these temperatures with an injury would have been fatal. With a slow and mellow start to the day, while my gear dried out, I inspect the small creek between the upper and lower lake to see a plethora of fish in the shallow water. I am hesitant to tell of this because I would hate to see them disappear to the hungry angler. I have seen them here once before, by the dozens. It's really an amazing spot. Well to complete another desire I decided to camp on the Table itself the next night. I have been up here once before on my one and only trip around this mountain in 2005. It rarely gets visited having steep and imposing cliffs all around it. The catch for me is, will the only tarn be dry or still have water in it this late in the year. If it is dry I will have to drop back down. Finding purchase among trees and boulder I make my way up and see a resident bald eagle soaring above me riding the thermals. After seeing a few dried tarns I see the big one still wet with decent water to filter. I set up in the big hemlock grove to the east with the tent getting the setting sun. I am situated with a windbreak short enough to allow for a decent sunrise. I am awed, finally to be camping here. The only human sign I see is a scattering of charred firewood from a long past campfire. This windy, late afternoon I spent exploring the edges of the Table near my campsite. A small coyote pack awakens me with their howls on three different occasions and I sense they are on the Table and getting closer. There is no danger and rarely is with coyotes, that night the temperature in the tent is 35 degrees. In the morning there is a very interesting condition where the moisture is frozen out of the ground, climbing an inch or two in frosty columns all about. Also the morning brings a thick cloud front forming east which concerns me with having to drive the logging road with snow on it. Now I loop back along the face of Goat Butte to the meadows above Shale Lake. Having been here so many times, even in the snow, I am comfortable about which way to go. I was very tempted to stay at another lake just below a talus slide close to the base of Goat Butte. However I didn't want to bear through another frosty night. I think I had a beer or two at the truck and that's where I went.
SKINNY DIPPING IN THE LAKE
Krispyshorts Vlog14: 2nd day at the lake house, very hungover then went on a boat cruise to hang with the crew. Then had a s'more party.
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