It truly is. So much nature, you can find animals pretty much anywhere. Birds and moose, mostlyā¦ but you can find porcupines crossing the road on occasion. Summers are pretty rainy, which I like, but most people quite despise the rain. When it isnāt raining, itās pretty sunny, from June - late August Iād say. The midnight sun becomes more prevalent the further north you go. But even down in south central, nights arenāt truly dark.
Autumn is wonderful though. Yellow leaves drifting from the trees, smell of rain prevalent everywhere, yet the grass remains green, even through the cold. then the unsettling barren follows. Night comes faster, trees are stripped of all color, looking like skeletons of their former selves. Itās a good idea not to whistle at night.
Winter is beautifully harsh. Itās either sunny or cloudy in the winter, most of the time, yet we still end up with 4-7 feet of snow, depending on how harshly Mother Nature wants our 6 months of snow to be. -15Ā°F is common but it can even get as uninhabitable as ~-40Ā°F. In winter, it is breathtaking when the sun goes up, but terrifying once it goes down. When the sun is shining high in the skies, it only lasts 4 hours, but my god, itās the prettiest sight youāll ever see. The mountains are so blue and serene looking, snow covering their massive peaks, the snow glitters like a dragonās hoard of crystals and silver, and youāll swear the skies are bluest here. But when the sun goes down and the moon comes up, itās a good idea to be afraid.
Nighttime lasts 20 hours in the winter, and where thereās trees, youāre practically blind. Even if you have moonlight, even if you shine a flashlight, you still canāt see through there. You can listen, but if you try too hard, you begin to hear things that arenāt truly there. Itās so quiet yet the silence is so loud. The trees obscure anything that poses a threatā¦ like a moose or a bear, depending on where youāre at. Or a person, if youāre REALLY unfortunate (though this is unlikely, unless you start something with someone, because most of the people here are a little insane, and probably would do that if you so looked at them wrong, but I digress.) because whatever is in the woods, you canāt see it. But it can certainly see you. So best to always assume something is out there.
Then summer comes after a while, and you can pretty much do anything for the next 5 months. Sightsee, birdwatch, eat overpriced food at restaurants, drive a thousand miles just to get to the next town over, drive another thousand and two miles to reach any sightseeing points (the butte, Hatchers pass, any glacial trails, etc.) look at the 500ths airplane thatās flown over, get stabbed at a bus stop, etc.
I js realized I went on a rant
consider it a brochure? xD i dunno i spent too much time typing that to delete it
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