This past week Sam, Jerad and myself took a little vacation. We combined a bunch of fun things into one trip and had the time of our lives. Last year I had won a stay at a condo at Big Sky and we decided to use it up. So on Wednesday we drove to the resort and got into the condo and set up our home for the next 2 nights. It was awesome to have our own little place to just lay around watch some tv and play lots of games.
Thursday we drove to West Yellowstone and than took a drive over to Hebgen Lake. This was such an amazing place. Hebgen Lake was hit by a 7.5 earthquake in August 1959. There were 28 people killed and 19 of them were never found again. The earthquake litterally caused a mountain to fall. There are 3000 ton rocks that went from the side of one mountain down and ended up on the side of another mountain across the valley. The destruction here was totally awe inspiring to see. It really made me appreciate life to know that people were just innocently camping in a campground one summer night to wake to an earthquake of such a magnitude as this one.
After spending a couple nights at the condo and hanging out in the Big Sky area, we drove to Red Lodge and went up the Beartooth Highway. We wanted to see all the repairs that had been made since the road was closed last summer because of a series of mudslides that tore out most of the road. Of course we had to get out and walk in the snow and have a snow ball fight in the middle of summer. Our trip was great.
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