Yeah, it's a gorgeous place! The modern gold mining companies have it down to a science...you go in boasting loud about all the jobs, and how ecologically safe your process is. Extract everything you can possibly get while sentiments are high, and then go bankrupt..no matter that god knows how much profit got siphoned away to switzerland, or wherever. They don't clean up shit. They can't. It costs too much, they'd never be competitive. Or maybe they're just greedy, I really have no idea, all I know is that there aren't any environmentally (or socially) responsible mining companies in Montana. It's unfortunate. But lucky for us, they mostly go to third world countries now! And rape their ecological and social capital :P

I'm a real upper tonight. Anyway, have you been up here before? Any places you particularly enjoyed?