Trip to Montana

Over the Labor Day weekend I went to Ennis Montana (yes it is as small of a town as the name sounds) I had a really good time. I got to learn to fly fish and went to Yellowstone.

Enough said

Tina and Mikayle, Partying at the little bar

This is where my dad took me to fly fish, it was my first time fly fishing. it was a lot of fun and I like it better then regular fishing, it is a little more entertaining. My dad told me that I did a really good job and caught on very fast YAY ME!!!!

Getting ready to fish, yep dang right I am double fisting it. catch more fish that way

My dad tying a fly on for me in hopes that with this one I will catch a fish. It did work I sorta caught waht but it got away cause I didn't really know I had one : (.

My dad and me after a day of fishing

QUAKE LAKE

On the evening of August 17th, 1959, the area just west of Yellowstone National Park experienced an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale. At the time it was the strongest earthquake recorded in the United States. It killed twenty-eight people; many were buried beneath the 80 million tons of dolomite that crashed down upon a sleeping Forest Service campground, others drowned when the Madison River, displaced by the slide, engulfed their tents. These deaths, the exodus of nearly eighteen thousand tourists from Yellowstone, an evacuation of downstream residents, and the astounding (and photogenic) property damage are probably known to most readers. Reports of tremors came from as far away as Seattle, Washington, Dickinson, North Dakota, Banff, Alberta, and Provo, Utah.

And it is now a lake, the trees in the water are what is left of the original camp sites.

OLD FAITHFUL

My lovely mom and me at Old Faithful, she was nice enough to take me all the way there.

It was very windy, this is just in front of the Geyser below, it was cool it ran off into the river it was really pretty the pictures just don't show it.

I wanted jump in it was so warm but my mom pointed at the hot pot was boiling so it might not be the best idea.

The sign says it all

I am not sure what town we were in but it was just outside of West Yellowstone. It was a really small town. but not as small as Ennis. All and all this was a pretty good day minus the fact that I didn't get a picture of the bear we saw. I was also cool cause in one day I was in 3 states Montana, Wyoming and Idaho all in a matter of a couple hours.

You can't really tell in this picture but the dam was leaking up the river and the river was getting really high. While my dad was fly fishing the ranger came and told them the had to get off the river case it was going to rise fast. If you look in the pictures or me fly fishing that little rocky patch was no longer there it was covered by water.

Ya the day we left it was snowing and it was sooooooooo COLD!!!!!

Ya FRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEZZZZZING 36 Degrees

The water in the Madison River was hotter then the air outside so it was steaming

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