Blog
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2024 Trip Release Details ~ and Happy Holidays!
We hope you are all enjoying the beginning of the holiday season. We’ve spent the last few months designing our 2024 schedule, and we’re excited about what’s on tap. Included in the lineup are several old favorites as well as a couple of new adventures. Trips will be posted on-line December 6th on the Dropstone
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2023 Trip Openings and Season Updates
Greeting from the Rocky Mountain Front As the sandhill cranes return, the snow (slowly) melts, and the mules shed their winter coats, we welcome spring in the Rockies. We have both wintered well as have our families, and we hope you and your loved ones have too. Yve’s boys are both in school and busy
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2023 Trip Application and Drawing Process
Thank you for your interest in traveling with us in 2023. It is a honor to share the Montana backcountry with you. In the last few years, we have seen an increased interest in outdoor recreation, both in the number of people we see on the trail and in the number of reservation forms we
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Spring 2022 Updates and Trip Openings
We are all getting ready for the growing season… …each in our own way. Here in Choteau we are busy prepping for another full season and just wanted to touch base with a few notes; We have teamed up with Naturalist Extraordinaire, Eric Bergman, to offer a few guided day hikes throughout the summer. -June 29:
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Wild Wings Snow Geese Migration Festival 2022
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2022 Trip Release Timeline and Details
Dreaming of an early morning coffee along the banks of a clear, wild river? Or of gaining that final ridge before the sky opens up and you can see peaks and valleys in every direction? Join us on a multi-day stock supported hiking trip in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness or Snowcrest Mountains for the ultimate
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Spring 2021 Updates
Greetings from the Rocky Mountain Front! We hope spring finds you happy, healthy, and spending time outside enjoying the warmer weather. We are looking forward to the upcoming season and to exploring the Bob Marshall Wilderness with many of you. We are in full preparation mode for the Summer 2021 season. Whether cooking, shopping, riding
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Staff Profile: Corlene Martin – Hostess and Cook Extraordinaire
If you have ever been on a Dropstone trip, then you’ve met Corlene. You’ve seen her beautiful house and immaculately landscaped garden and eaten her delicious meals. Corlene’s food, home, and indomitable spirit are cornerstones in the Dropstone world. Corlene is a class act, and I got a chance to catch up with her last
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Bear Hangs in the Backcountry
By Yve Bardwell Bear hangs – we all know it- they can be a doozy. But they can also be a fun way to test your creativity and backcountry acumen. Getting something hoisted and up to snuff with pretty limited tools and a certain amount of luck and pluck can prove challenging to even the saltiest
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Morgan’s Internship Experience with MARS Wildlife Rescue Centre
by Ali Morgan, a staff member and guide with Dropstone Outfitting MARS Wildlife Rescue Center – Vancouver Island, British Columbia Many people right now are experiencing something that I have some familiarity with: Being at home with arguably too much time available. In the past, for me, it has been time between seasonal jobs and much