The much-anticipated camping in the Crazy Mountains weekend had finally arrived! If you'll recall, our guest speaker from June, Jerry, offered to take us out to the mountains and teach us all about wilderness survival. We got a nice surprise added on: another famous Wilsall local and artist Gary Kirby would join us too!
The weekend was full of hands-on learning survival skills from Jerry and Gary. We learned how to light a fire, set the sights of a rifle, how to hold a gun and how to be safe out in the mountains. Around the campfire that night, they even performed a skit for us! It was based on an old radio show program but they personalized the scrip, added our names, and then when nightfall came, had us side-splitting laughing.
They're both history buffs and sported their unique Western/Native-American influenced apparel. Jerry let me wear his buffalo hide jacket.
For breakfast, Jerry cooked up some unbelievable steak and eggs on the campfire. Sarah came up with the idea of these little cups made of tin foil for each egg and they cooked up perfectly!
On Sunday, Dave and I set out on a long hike up to Cottonwood Lake atop the Crazy Mountains. It was going to be a six-mile one way hike (12 total for the day). It was spectacularly beautiful. At one point, you're hiking straight up along a grassy knob with stunning 360 degree views of the range. Straight across from us was a thousand-feet long cascading waterfall (that you can see to the right of Dave in the photo below).
After 3-4 miles and coming up on another river crossing, we decided to cut it short of Cottonwood Lake and head back to the campsite for a relaxing evening by the campfire.
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