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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Bob[/i] [br]While visited my Mother in Bozeman, I went kayaking and cliff jumping on the Jefferson River in Montana below the US 287 Bridge. This is between Lewis and Clark Caverns and the town of Willow Creek (about 15 miles upstream from the 3 Froks of the Missouri). The country around there is arid and scenic. It has juniper trees, grass, sage brush, and white limestone cliffs. In many places it is steep and rugged. I went there primarily to jump off a cliff into the river that we used to jump off of while in college. Some people want nothing to do with this cliff. Others can jump off of it very casually. I can do it, but it has always been a scarey thing for me, and there were some outings when I never got up the nerve to jump at all. When I left my Mom's condo for the river, she just said, "Have fun". I guess you could say she's from the old school. I went there on Monday and Wednesday, and jumped from the cliff about 6 times each day. There was nobody around. My right glute and the back of my right thigh and my right pec muscle were sore the next day, but the soreness didn't last more than a day. I paddled back upstream to the bridge. I only had to walk the boat a few hundred yards due to riffles. I think this was the most practical way to do it since I was by myself. The thought crossed my mind to measure the cliff, but I thought that could be very bad luck, to put a number on it. I saw a mule deer doe while kayaking down to the cliff. It flushed from the brush near the river and ran up the hill side. A mule deer doe is not a note worthy sighting, but there was something about the deer and the sagebrush and the grass and the steep hill side and the white limestones cliffs that were really pretty. I also saw a small brown bat with black wings. It was flying around by the bridge at about 5:00 pm. It landed on the bridge, and I went and looked at it. It was hanging upside down. It was a good looking bat, not ugly. I have read that some species of bats feed during the day, and I'm guessing that this was one of those. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.