Sometimes I need a reminder to stop and see the wonders of my own neighborhood, and I appreciate bloggers who — Thoreau-like — keep their focus small and remind me to do the same. Two of my favorites are Some Little Crum Creek and Walks Under the Trees. They both focus on the geography of smaller places, and each new post is energizing.
Yesterday we returned to a section of the Missouri River that we hike so often that I sometimes forget how gorgeous it is. It’s a short three-mile hike below Hauser Dam and Beaver Creek, favored by fishermen and bald eagles, and….me.
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Yay! One of my favorite spots…
And the eagles are in their nest, too. AND we saw a mountain goat.
I love this hike — it’s always one of our early-season favorites. Are the pelicans back? And the ticks?
No pelicans there, but we saw them at the Regulating Res. on Saturday. No ticks either. At least not on me.
I once rolled down I-15, toward the spires of Helena on the horizon, and must have passed not far from this hike. Sorry I missed it … Looks wonderful!
I’m glad you find your way to Little Crum Creek. And thanks for wearing a little trail for me to follow back to your favored spot.
And thank you for your great blog!
Love your photos as always. It’s places like this that keep me going out into the wilderness time and time again. We all could spend a 100 lifetimes trying to explore every canyon and creek we hike across and still not be able to see it all. Great work.
Thanks. There is just so much to explore…
Wow, just absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing this experience and for the reminder. We recently went on a hike down the Barton Creek Greenbelt. A beautiful hike right in our own city. You would never know it rests in the heart of Austin. We haven’t hiked there in 10 years and after going again, we couldn’t understand why we haven’t spent more time there. I think we just get so focused on the next trip, or getting away, that we don’t think about those adventures close to home. I enjoyed your post, as always. Thank you!
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