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tripWF200x150shkl

The trip started in Whitefish

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Northern Lights Saloon puts out some good eats. Hour drive to nowhere but worth it. Bar seats a few and tables for a few more. No electricity. Propane gas lights and stove. Chemical toilet. Pot belly stove is fired up with birch and larch year 'round. Opens at five during off season. Eleven in the summer.

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Polebridge has a shopping district of the Northern Lights and the Merc. Great bakery. A few "rustic" cabins for city folks and flatlanders. 4th of July Parade is popular for the locals and visitors (Whitefish, Hungry Horse, West Glacier, Lake Five, etc.). Usually 20-30 people decorate their pick-ups and tractors and bring their flag waving children and dogs. New batteries in the boom box blast "Stars and Stripes."Auditions for the band have been slow.

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Polebridge has more dogs than people. Note the three legged critter. She's slow on the run but fast on the cute. The tire on the right has been there for 9 years. The owner needed some air. Will be back to pick it up later when the generator is working again to power the air pump. The lights are propane but the generator is working and we've got electric. Where is that guy?

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Limited inventory but everything a camper needs. Good hot pocket sandwiches too. Beer, wine, jerky, bisquick and bandaids.

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Pretty sure the wiring doesn't meet city codes. Codes?

Those sticky buns are yummo!

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You're looking at about a thousand trout.

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Bears go into hibernation in about three weeks.

 

Time to wax the skis.

 

See ya on the slopes.

 

Bill Milner October 2007

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