Travel Day, Winter Wonderland, Snowy Stroll to Dinner
The transition from Los Angeles International AirPort to Bozeman Airport is pretty significant in several ways. Leaving a city whose population is nearly four million and landing in a city of fifteen thousand (the entire State of Montana has a population of just over one million!) is striking. You immediately notice the sense of space and the slower pace. Also, there are no palm trees here.
Our driver, Brad, met us at baggage claim and loaded us into a van for the one hour ride up to Lone Mountain. As we have found in our various travels, it seems like everyone is from California. Brad grew up in Mission Viejo, the location of my high school alma mater. However, there is about a fifty year difference between our respective high school experiences.
We rode up through a narrow and steep canyon that followed the Gallatin River. The temperature was 10 degrees and snow was falling steadily.
We got to the ranch just before dark and made our way to our cabin after a short orientation by the staff.
The Porcupine Cabin is a cozy one room space with a wood stove, heated bathroom floor, and a record player among other creature comforts.
Dinner (all our meals will be there) was at the ‘Horn and Cantle’ restaurant. It is a few hundred yards walk from our cabin. The trail is cut into the three-foot base of snow that covers this part of the ranch.
The food was great - more on that later, and we met a nice retired couple from Minnesota (Bobby and Sally), who have extensive experience with cross country skiing.
NEXT: Get to the ski shop and hit the trails
That looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow! Looks fantastic. Go get em😎
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