Two Days and Lots of Montana!

This last week has been rather unusual in that we haven't fixed food or cleaned cabins. The time somehow became used up anyway! Wednesday and Thursday we took off from the lodge with several things on our schedule: Virginia City, Nevada City, Sheridan, Twin Bridges and a hike up into the Madisons.


I'd never gone through the old buildings in Nevada City. That's a cool place! It still has a very uncomercialized feel to it, and that makes it all the more fun. Nathaniel found an old car to 'drive'. In V City we visited a museum, stopped at several stores, the old church (FYI, in which resides a baby grand piano), and totally enjoyed the whole boardwalk/old west feel. Main street is the only one that is paved. Wait, Sheridan's streets are mostly gravel too...moving on.



We drove to Twin Bridges and visited the museum there. The ladies were super nice and helpful. We especially enjoyed reading about the round barn (which we drove out to see). I read about the Beaverhead Rock while Lerrina educated herself on the round barn. Apparently Lewis and Clark left an inscription on it which was blown to bits to help a water problem. Gotta love those priorities!





We drove out to see both the barn and the rock.









Sheep Creek Trail in the Madison Moutain Range turned out to be a great hike on the second day! It was beeeeauuuuutiful! That hike would be worth doing again! I lost my sunglasses...that's three this summer...and gained 2 cups of Montana's treasure-huckleberries. What a treat!




The wildflowers were totally unbelievable! I saw deep pink Indian Paintbrush, which I've never seen before. We were following Sheep Creek most of the way and that was beautiful too.