The Montana isn't bad thread

And another area:

And it is called Big Sky Country - because it really looks like that - it looks like you see sky forever - so hard to describe you really need to see it.

When we went the beginning of last summer, we went to Red Lodge. We took a drive over into Wyoming through the Bear Tooth Mountain pass. It was summer and warm in Red Lodge as we were driving through the Mountains toward Wyoming - it got colder and colder - toward the top there was snow and a small area where people were skiing. Here we were dressed in shorts and walked out to throw some snowballs - it beautiful but freezing as heck.

Directors of fantastic and surrealistic films:

David Lynch apparently comes from Montana.
Animation giant Brad Bird [24 September 1957, Kalispell, Montana, USA] is from Montana.

Ratatouille (2007)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Iron Giant (1999)

Dave McNally also - family knew them and as a result some family members that moved to CA would get great seats whenever the Orioles were in town!

Has the coal industry fixed up the thousands of acres of moutain tops they destroyed with strip mining and promised to reclaim yet?

Sounds a lot like the Big Island of Hawaii. Mauna Kea has snow at the summit at unpredictable times of the year. Ski up there, then drive down the mountainside (a trip of maybe 1 1/2 hours) and go surfing in 80 degree weather.

Yeah except there ain't a whole lot of surfing going on in Montana....