Fellow E-11ers:
Well, if it seems like forever since you have heard from me it (unusually so) has been! But strap on your email belts for, as we get closer and closer each day to Opening Day of Extravaganza 2011, that is soon to be remedied.
To tee things up, I thought you would enjoy the attached excerpt from the State of Montana’s wonderful award-winning Montana Outdoors magazine [not posted to Der Blog—the article is in the magazine’s March-April, 2011 issue]. History is a beautiful thing and the attached tells stories of the emblems of Montana (and their history) that will make even the most wary of history buff smile. Who would have guessed that the State butterfly is the Mourning Cloak (so named because its color matches the color of ages-ago Montana coats worn to funerals) or that the State fossil (I never even knew that states had State fossils!) was the clustering Maiasaura or that the original resolution adopting the State Seal contained a typo in its Spanish logo??
With the now (later) dawning of Daylights Savings Time, keep your email eyes peeled as E-11 quickly approaches, knowing that, each day in Montana, there is now 6 more hours of daylight as we approach our Summer Equinox (where and when it is light at Extravaganza Headquarters to well past 10:00 p.m.). Your Hostess With the Mostess, Kocktail Kathy, and I travel to HQ this Thursday from whence I will give you photo evidence and a datedown/update on just where we stand snowpack-wise. As a preview, we are still tracking one of the highest snowfall levels in recorded history, with snowpack levels in the Bitterroot Valley averaging well over 125% of normal [by way of comparison, this time last year we were well less than half of that number].
Enjoy the attached reading material and begin thinking Montana…to that end, I received an email report from our wonderful Double Up Outfitter John “The Great but Propaneless” [yes, rookies, there is a story to be told with that name!] Gould that, today, he landed his first 2011 fish on a dry fly which prompted me to book a trip with him next Friday the 25th to see if his fishing prowess yet matched his marvelous salesmanship!
Best to all in early anticipation of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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Click on the play button above to hear the new song written about the Montana Extravaganza and Rock Creek Ron.
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