While on our vacation to Montana, we took a little drive up to the northwest part of the state to visit the Ross Creek Cedars. I'd never heard of it before, but it turned out to be a pretty cool place to check out. After taking our lives into our hands on the winding, overly-busy mountain road, we made it to a little parking lot at the trail head. These rather large cedars are growing in this ravine along the aforementioned creek and someone carved out a nice short trail to walk amongst the giants. The path wasn't steep or long, so it was perfect for our large group of underage hikers. Plus it was almost completely shaded, due to there being a lot of big trees (strange, I know) so that made it an even better idea on a hot summer day. The kids enjoyed climbing over the carcasses of the cedars' dead family members, using their branches for weapons, tossing stones in the water to disturb swimming creatures, and otherwise doing childish things.
My point exactly. Here's Adam, acting like a child.
Standing inside of this dead tree's slowly rotting corpse.
I know, it's kind of horrific.
We didn't kill this one, it was already like that when we got there. We didn't see anything, Officer.
How big are they? They're that big. For reference, Brooke has an 11 foot wingspan.
These two tried to squash Adam.
Another angry child.
Smile, Nolan! Nolan!! NOLAN!!!
We think these stones were put here by aliens... ancient alien astronauts maybe.
Here's Will and a random hand.
Another beautiful summer hike in Montana!
