Montana

There is a bear in the creek, between the tree that looks like an aspen and the two short spruces. At least, it's a rock that moves. There were many fishermen in this river as well.


A moose. There were two females in the bushes behind him.


The stream outside the sapphire hunting place. We found 5.58 carats of cuttable sapphires. The largest was 2 carats.

There are wildfires in these mountains. The smoke looks like clouds from far away, and like fog from close up. There are "incident bases" all along the route we took to get to Missoula for the night. They launch helicopters and trucks from them. The helicopters deliver both water to the fire, and firemen in parachutes -- smoke jumpers. This fire has been raging for a week.