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My life in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains - Out hiking the trails or heading down some backroad. MSU Bobcat, Engineer, U.S. Navy Submariner vet. #science #democracy #freespeech #commondecency
A pretty little spot along the trail on today’s #hike 🏔️
#scape #photography
How inconsiderable this Earth, the theater upon which all our mighty designs & all our wars are transacted. A fit consideration for those Kings who sacrifice the lives of so many people only to flatter their ambition in being masters of some pitiful corner of this small spot
Christiaan Huygens -1690
Where the buffalo roam… in Lamar Valley last week 🍂
#Bison #photography
10,800’
07.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sure….16mm f2.8 ISO 3200
30 seconds
Two of those mountain goats I ran into on one of last week’s hikes… Just chillin’
#wildlife #scape #photography
It’s a 30 sec exposure with a Canon R5…✨
06.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The night sky over my house last night… That tiny oval smear you can see on the right is the Andromeda galaxy… you have to wonder if there’s somebody over there right now looking over at our Milky Way…and wondering… 💫 #astronomy
06.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 169 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 0Thanks David! 🏔️🙂
05.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! 🙂
05.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t ….just for fun/gifts 🎁
05.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Headin’ down the trail on my last #hike this week 🍂 #autumn #scape #photography
05.10.2025 22:21 — 👍 168 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Finished up another #cuttingboard the other day… A little Montana walnut inlay into a nice piece of cherry 🪚
#woodworking
🙂
05.10.2025 01:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
It’s “Montucky” nowadays…🫤
04.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I ran into this young bull #moose right at the start of yesterday‘s #hike… He wasn’t about to budge from the trail, so I had to make a wide bush-whack around him 🍂
#wildlife #photography
For sure… I was just happy to have spotted him…🙂
04.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Was waaaayyy too far away to get a decent photo (this was shot at 600 mm!) but still always a treat to see a #wolf
04.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 67 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
A little weather rolling in over Whitetail Peak… The turnaround point for today’s #hike 🏔️ #scape #photography
04.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 176 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 1
The Beartooth Highway closes for the season today, so I made one last trip over the Pass yesterday… Was rewarded with this pretty little #rainbow over the lakes 🌈
#scape #photography #peace
You bet Clyde…🐻👍🏻
03.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Those #autumn colors were not messing around today 🍂
#scape #photography
He took his time pulling over… But of course that’s always the bison’s prerogative!
02.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dang traffic was wild this morning…
02.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 250 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 2
Countless Bronze Stars/Silver Stars/Purple Hearts…and they’re forced to listen to a lecture on “Warrior Ethos” by a bonespur-faking draft dodger and the dipshit former weekend host of Fox and Friends. I’m sure they appreciated it…
02.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0
A closer look at those #mountaingoats on my last hike… They knew I was there of course, but just couldn’t drum up much interest in me…🏔️ #scape #photography
02.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 56 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0I hear ya 🫤
02.10.2025 12:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Bill! 🐻
02.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In this pic you can see where those #mountaingoats were on the hillside yesterday when I first spotted them… We’ve even got the Bear’s-tooth back there on the horizon which is pretty neat…🏔️ #scape #photography
01.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 114 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0
