Flowers are the earth laughing. —Ralph Waldo Emerson As the undisputed “Crown of the Continent,” Glacier National Park is grand, with its expansive views, mammoth glaciers, towering Continental Divide, historic lodges, hulking grizzlies, and, of course, big sky. But it’s the little things that make the park and its surrounding areas memorable on a personal…
Like much of the U.S. right now, we are suffering from a brutal heat wave. The highs are twenty degrees above average and we haven’t seen a significant rainfall for over a week (though we did hike in a sleet storm near Logan Pass on July 3). Combine this with the fact that we are…
Happy Fourth of July! We hope everyone had a great time celebrating 236 years of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. We celebrated by sitting on the side of a dirt road, drinks in hand, to cheer on one heck of an irreverent yet patriotic, charming, and short parade. Classic Polebridge, and we love…
Well, Readers, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about the topic I’m sure you’re all dying to know more about: the composting toilet. As the saying goes, that which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. And we’re still here. If you compost your garden waste or kitchen vegetable scraps, you probably already know that…
A Note from Chris: The thing about living in a yurt in the middle of nowhere is that every task takes three times longer than it should. In fact, I haven’t seen so many curveballs since my ol’ baseball days. The list of projects is long and never-ending—like building a shed for firewood and the new…
In a state as vast, remote, and sparsely populated as Montana, square-foot gardening may seem absurd. I know it probably does to many of our North Fork neighbors. In fact, one thought our little veggie-plot-to-be was a horseshoe pitching box. At twenty-four square feet, the raised bed looks not unlike a postage stamp in the…
Unbelievably enough, it's officially spring. As with most of the country, the "wild winter" of "clime and punishment" predicted by the Farmer's Almanac never materialized here in northwest Montana. While Whitefish received much less snow than usual, Polebridge did see its typical two feet on the ground, but the temps were mild—relatively speaking. I guess…
We're off to Nicaragua and that place where the Bay of Pigs happened. See you in three weeks or so!
A Note from Chris: Finally, a toilet. We are so excited that we have a composting commode installed that we just have to share. That’s the good news. The bad news is that I finally read the operating instructions, and it turns out this contraption requires constant daily maintenance, so we're still debating the separation…
Well, it’s not as exciting as the mystery of Bo and Deb, but life at the yurt continues at its own mercurial pace. Living in Montana is sometimes like living in Mexico, or, as Chris says, Anguilla. When we order anything through the Internet, it rarely arrives by the estimated delivery date, if it gets…
Postcards from Polebridge 