Our stay in Bozeman is quickly coming to an end. Just one more day here, then we leave Monday heading to Washington. This afternoon we took a scenic drive to Big Sky. Beautiful. The Gallatin River is running high and fast but that didn’t stop people from whitewater rafting on it. We stopped at a pullout and waited for some to come by.
I’m going to wait until later in the season when I can take a slow drift down a river.
The weather has definitely changed since we first got here – it was in the high 80’s this afternoon and sunny. At this altitude, the sun feels hotter to me, although there is no humidity. When we left Big Sky, we searched for Hyalite Reservoir and drove up forest service roads to a beautiful, busy reservoir. People were stand-up paddleboarding, kayaking, boating, swimming and I think every other person had at least one dog with them, throwing sticks in the water for them to retrieve. Beautiful national forest campgrounds all along the way up there. June 1st must be the official start to summer in Montana and the locals take advantage of every hour of warm weather. The sun is coming up around 5:30 and doesn’t set until nearly 10 PM. I hear birds singing around 4:30 every morning.
The lake looks uncrowded from the pictures Tony took, but he was trying not to get pictures of the people.
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