Montana Activity Ideas, give feedback please!
Some other possibilities are: sapphire mining near Helena, a trip to Marysville for a crazy good steak, a tour of the Copper King Mansion in Butte, Bozeman Hot Springs (connected to the KOA - but really good ho****er), and the Tour Train in Helena, which covers the mansion district and other historical high points.
I can't remember the name of the place in Virginia City, but yum!
And look here for tube rental rates of $6/day:
http://www.roundhouse-sports.com/articles.asp?id=133
We'd just need some transportation. I only have a car. D'ya think we could float the Missouri from Toston to Townsend?
Kathy!(Pre-op: 5'2", 292/277/148-Highest/at WLS/Current)
Let God's presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom
to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of us.
Oh yay, Bozeman Hot Springs is open again? Last I heard was they'd had a bad fire and things were questionable.
My sister tells me that's Last Chance Stampede weekend in Helena and the Townsend Rodeo. I think a rodeo, supplied with a cooler of beer and goodies, would be marvelous. Gotta get these Easterners some cowboy exposure! LOL
I wonder if we could work something out, say on Saturday, where we packed ourselves up starting at some ridiculously early hour, got on the river (how long of a float is Toston to Townsend? I've never set foot in the Missouri), road tripped over to Boulder to the hot springs and then up to Helena for the evening festivities, which I presume would include rodeo and dancing. There's a nice all-back-roads way, assuming good dry weather, to get from Townsend over to the Boulder Valley. Or if we dropped the hot springing for that day, we could either hang in Townsend for the rodeo (depending on time of day) or ride up to Helena from Townsend.
The vehicle logistics could get kind of interesting. Enough people are flying in and renting vehicles that we could house all the bodies with no problems, but how would we do the tube transports? That would be a heck of a trip to get them back to Bozeman....Or do they rent air compressors for inflating/deflating too?
We would also need alternate activities for bad weather. In MT, everything gets planned "DOW"--depending on weather :-p. I've seen snow in July (and temps in the 90's within a couple days of that snow). Running around in Butte would be a pretty good sucky weather activity, I suppose. We could do the Copper King Mansion, the mineral museum, shopping, food and pub crawl, and no doubt find a dance or two in the evening. VC would be doable in moderately poor weather too.... Kathy, what's downtown Helena like on Stampede weekend during the day? Total chaos?
(Sorry, this turned into response to you, thinking out loud and comments to others all muddled into one.)
My sister tells me that's Last Chance Stampede weekend in Helena and the Townsend Rodeo. I think a rodeo, supplied with a cooler of beer and goodies, would be marvelous. Gotta get these Easterners some cowboy exposure! LOL
I wonder if we could work something out, say on Saturday, where we packed ourselves up starting at some ridiculously early hour, got on the river (how long of a float is Toston to Townsend? I've never set foot in the Missouri), road tripped over to Boulder to the hot springs and then up to Helena for the evening festivities, which I presume would include rodeo and dancing. There's a nice all-back-roads way, assuming good dry weather, to get from Townsend over to the Boulder Valley. Or if we dropped the hot springing for that day, we could either hang in Townsend for the rodeo (depending on time of day) or ride up to Helena from Townsend.
The vehicle logistics could get kind of interesting. Enough people are flying in and renting vehicles that we could house all the bodies with no problems, but how would we do the tube transports? That would be a heck of a trip to get them back to Bozeman....Or do they rent air compressors for inflating/deflating too?
We would also need alternate activities for bad weather. In MT, everything gets planned "DOW"--depending on weather :-p. I've seen snow in July (and temps in the 90's within a couple days of that snow). Running around in Butte would be a pretty good sucky weather activity, I suppose. We could do the Copper King Mansion, the mineral museum, shopping, food and pub crawl, and no doubt find a dance or two in the evening. VC would be doable in moderately poor weather too.... Kathy, what's downtown Helena like on Stampede weekend during the day? Total chaos?
(Sorry, this turned into response to you, thinking out loud and comments to others all muddled into one.)
PRCA rodeo & evening entertainment: http://www.lewisandclarkcountyfairgrounds.com/last-chance-st ampede-fair/prca-rodeo.html
Bozeman Hot Springs: http://www.bozemanhotsprings.biz/
Plus, I think with enough advance planning - and everyone kicking in a $20 - we could probably rent one or two 7-passenger SUVs either in Bozeman or Helena from Friday night til Sunday morning.
How many are you expecting?
Bozeman Hot Springs: http://www.bozemanhotsprings.biz/
Plus, I think with enough advance planning - and everyone kicking in a $20 - we could probably rent one or two 7-passenger SUVs either in Bozeman or Helena from Friday night til Sunday morning.
How many are you expecting?
Kathy!(Pre-op: 5'2", 292/277/148-Highest/at WLS/Current)
Let God's presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom
to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of us.
Bonnie told me to check out the chatter after I went to bed. Name is Terria (terriya) Terri with an A on the end. When you get to know me its Ter. Love all of the suggestions esp. VC. W
ould like to all be in the same car/van so the chatter can be deafening and the food passed around liberally. I really need to be out and about w/ people of like bodies- I'm so jazzed about this..
decide the weekend- I'll make it happen. Thanks for all your work on this.
Darma
ould like to all be in the same car/van so the chatter can be deafening and the food passed around liberally. I really need to be out and about w/ people of like bodies- I'm so jazzed about this..
decide the weekend- I'll make it happen. Thanks for all your work on this.
Darma
Terria, you will LOVE being together with a batch of DSers, I promise that!
If everyone shows up who's talking about coming, we'd need at least TWO vans! How cool is that? If all the family members come along, it looks to me like around fifteen people so far
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My sister has a van, but I would not be comfortable transporting people in her vehicle. She might decide it sounds like fun and come along too, but I wouldn't expect it. She's not nearly as much of a social butterfly as I am, plus she'll be haying and doing classes online (she's studying for her masters in math education, all online--I don't know how she does it). So I don't want to volunteer her or her equipment for anything.
If everyone shows up who's talking about coming, we'd need at least TWO vans! How cool is that? If all the family members come along, it looks to me like around fifteen people so far
. My sister has a van, but I would not be comfortable transporting people in her vehicle. She might decide it sounds like fun and come along too, but I wouldn't expect it. She's not nearly as much of a social butterfly as I am, plus she'll be haying and doing classes online (she's studying for her masters in math education, all online--I don't know how she does it). So I don't want to volunteer her or her equipment for anything.
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