Just Another "I love the Mountains" thread\obsession. Get me a napkin! so I can stop drooling (Denver: live, vacations)

[Rickers]

Originally Posted by treedonkey

How do they get folks to do that for free? Is it just something he does when he happens to be home and isn't busy with other stuff...? (Like helping people on CDF) or does the govt or some entity somehow pay him for it?

Nobody pays him, he does it out of his sweet Montana heart. Grass roots efforts like this provides convenience for the locals as well as the travelers and helps keep our taxes low.
More pics for ya all. A few grave markers in a long forgotten pioneers grave yard.

[treedonkey]

Originally Posted by rickers

Nobody pays him, he does it out of his sweet Montana heart. Grass roots efforts like this provides convenience for the locals as well as the travelers and helps keep our taxes low.
More pics for ya all. A few grave markers in a long forgotten pioneers grave yard.

That sounds sweet and all, but if I had to cross there, I'd rather have someone there whenever I needed to cross charging me a reasonable fee. You know, like a professional.

I don't know, maybe this guy stays home all the time and is willing to get up at any hour and is always 100% cheery to give you a free pull across. I'd still try to pay the guy anyways -- as free stuff makes me uncomfortable.

[Rickers]

I'm sure he would be happy to accept a tip. He doesn't really go anywhere and these roads as well as the ferry get very little traffic. Not many tourists drive around these farm roads at night, there are many roads not on maps and some roads on the maps are in farmers fields and don't go anywhere. Very few of these roads have signs. Nothing is really free, you may have to put up with a few jokes as he takes you across !

[treedonkey]

Next time I head up to Montana I'm emailing you first just to find out where this guy lives and to get my 'free' ride.

[Coloradohh]

Too all thank you for all the wonderful replies and photos! I think some of you miss understood me when I was talking about Idaho and MT… I would love to live in either state but lets be real, there are no jobs in the Technology Sector in MT or ID to be had… On one of the replies someone wrote that I don’t think that the folks in ID or MT are just as smart as the folks in Colorado, NO that’s not true! We are all equally smart! It is up to you to educate and enlighten yourself! Not the state. With that said Colorado just seems to produce more folks on average than any other state. MT is very beautiful, I have heard or read somewhere that the mountains in MT make Colorado look like hills? I dunno?

Treedonkey, about the napkin part in my thread, I don’t know what I was thinking but it just came to me… No real big significance there.

[vegaspilgrim]

Originally Posted by Coloradohh

With that said Colorado just seems to produce more folks on average than any other state. MT is very beautiful, I have heard or read somewhere that the mountains in MT make Colorado look like hills? I dunno?

I wouldn't say that exactly. Colorado's mountains make Montana's mountains look like hills. In terms of sheer size, number, and grandeur of mountains, Colorado beats out all of the other Rocky Mountain states. What makes Montana special is the state is wayyyyy less populated, more rural, and more authentically "old western" (though that's changing fast) than Colorado.

Now, compared to Alaska and the Canadian Rockies... all the mountains in the lower 48 including Colorado look stupid.

[onthamove]

Originally Posted by vegaspilgrim

I wouldn't say that exactly. Colorado's mountains make Montana's mountains look like hills. In terms of sheer size, number, and grandeur of mountains, Colorado beats out all of the other Rocky Mountain states. What makes Montana special is the state is wayyyyy less populated, more rural, and more authentically "old western" (though that's changing fast) than Colorado.

Now, compared to Alaska and the Canadian Rockies... all the mountains in the lower 48 including Colorado look stupid.

well thats where i gotta head next i rekon

[Neditate]

Originally Posted by Mike from back east

All these things being said, everyone needs to follow their dream, whatever it is. Life is a journey, go wherever, here, there, anywhere, see it, feel it, taste it, smell it, touch it, love it, enjoy the experience. Gather what knowledge we can from the sages here and about and roll your own dice.

Thanks for that post.
If I had listened to every person who told me I "couldn't do" this or "shouldn't do" that I wouldn't be where I am now. I trusted my instincts and did what I felt/knew was right for me. And THAT is living MY dream.

[breaksraver13]

Originally Posted by Neditate

Thanks for that post.
If I had listened to every person who told me I "couldn't do" this or "shouldn't do" that I wouldn't be where I am now. I trusted my instincts and did what I felt/knew was right for me. And THAT is living MY dream.

Very well said. I can totally agree with that statement. If I listened to everyone else I would still be living on the stupid east coast, but now I'm not. I followed a dream and it has made me the happiest person alive.

[CosmicWizard]

There's a quote from Henry David Thoreau that goes something like this...

What others say you cannot do, you try and find you can.

This has been one of the guiding principles of my life. Thank you HDT!