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Admittedly, I'm a transplant. But like most Montana transplants, I think moving here was more of a calling than a preference. I think some Montanans are just born elsewhere before making it "home." But all of the Montanans whose families have been here for generations might laugh at this commonality that I've come to recognize over the years: Montana is no cheap date when you're asking for a lifetime of adventure. If you move here, there are prices to pay in experience, sort of like a wilderness hazing ritual. Let me explain. When I first arrived in Montana, it was about 40 days after my husband arrived and during an unusually warm spring. We decided to rent a tandem kayak and hit the Blackfoot River to celebrate our dating anniversary. In May. Early May. For all the newcomers who are reading this, confused as to what the punch line is, consider this your spring warning and the first rule in the non-existent newcomer's guide to Montana. My husband and I could barely step through the shallow water without sucking in long, loud breaths. We zipped up our life vests and paddled away downstream even though the current carried us with ease. The sun shone bright on our bare legs and the mist from small rapids sent us into breathless laughing fits. This was the perfect day. Until it wasn't. The horizon was violent with whitewater and I felt my body readying for a battle I was ill-prepared for. We were in trouble. The waves inevitably flooded our kayak and being submerged in the water was like a thousand knives piercing my skin. I had never experienced cold of this severity before. Not even when my eyelashes were crusted over at the highest peak of prime ski season. My husband was gone. I was holding onto a tree branch and pulling myself into a thicket of trees that washed up onto a thin island of other debris. There he was, down river, perched up on a rock, waving to me. With the help of countless seasoned strangers in these wild waters, we were reunited. Both sporting new badges of embarrassment and gratitude. And we're not alone. There are hundreds of stories just like ours, where Montana nearly took the lives of people upon arrival. Adventure awaits, but proceed with caution.
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Cassidee Boland walks on a treadmill while reading “She’s Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You” by Chrystal Evans Hurst within the newly renovated Fuel Fitness facility on Brooks Street. Just a year and a half ago, a personal setback caused her to lose her sense of purpose, but you wouldn’t guess that by looking at her now—physically and mentally moving toward a better self.
“I needed to have something in my life that would help me be the person I want to be, the person others can lean on—a good influence in both my personal and work environments,” says the UM alumnus and associate manager of Pruyn Veterinary Hospital. It’s safe to say that she found that something at the gym. At the time, Fuel Fitness was the closest gym in proximity to where
Cassidee lived, but now she commutes across town to remain part of the community she found there. “I know I will meet people here who will push me,” says Cassidee. “I want to raise the bar every time a goal is accomplished, in a gym setting and in my everyday life.” She closes the book, which Cassidee describes as a roadmap to finding oneself, CONTINUED >
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and steps off the treadmill. It’s a Thursday evening around 7 p.m. and people have populated all sorts of machinery and spaces. “It’s definitely busy this time of night.” The constant hum of cardio equipment provides a soundtrack for movement as she performs squat lunges with a 50-pound barbell across the expanse of black turf. She stops to stretch her calves and then enters reps on an app she uses for tracking her progress. Nearby, two men take turns doing burpees and a woman does squats with a resistance band. Near the front windows, a man in headphones takes a call while using a dowel to stretch. Along the far wall, another man wipes sweat from his face as he returns an exercise ball to the shelf. All of this activity is taking place in an open turf area of the gym that is new thanks to the recent renovation in December. Director of operations Colter Gibson says, “That’s where the fitness industry is going. More of that functional movement.” The space offers easy access to equipment such as kettlebells, jump ropes, and resistance bands, as well as plenty of room to use them. The renovation also entailed moving dumbbells—a popular item, according to Colter— out of a distant corner. They also installed brand new flooring and added rowing machines while downsizing the number of cardio machines to make way for the new turf. “It felt packed before,” says Colter, noting how the gym culture is making a shift in how members want to move. Even the color scheme got a facelift, with red and yellow giving way to black and gray. “We wanted to neutralize,” says Colter. Past feedback indicated that the previous colors were “aggressive and too much,” so they listened and agreed. With more improvement in mind, beginner-friendly equipment is now grouped separately near the entrance to entice members who might otherwise be intimidated by difficult-to-adjust machinery with unfamiliar features. Every aspect of the renovation has taken what didn’t work and turned it on its head to build a better future for the space and our community. “We want to bring in young, working professionals—people with families,” says Colter, referencing the gym’s new marketing campaign that is geared toward inclusiveness. “I meet a lot of new people and hear their stories. Everyone has something that brought them to fitness.” Having grown up playing organized sports, Cassidee was never intimidated by the gym setting but she recognizes
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“I want to raise the bar every time a goal is accomplished, in a gym setting and in my everyday life.” —Cassidee Boland CONTINUED >
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that walking up to any gym’s doors can be daunting. She’s quick to admit that Fuel Fitness offers a special culture that’s both supportive and friendly. “No one shies away from giving or receiving feedback, even if they don’t know you,” says Cassidee. At this point in her workout, she’s moved on to a butterfly stretch and some seated twists. Nearby, a woman lays out a mat and stretches her arms over her head. “If someone recognizes I’m doing something that’s going to injure me, I want to hear that.” For those who are seeking a surefire way to get feedback at the gym, working with a personal trainer is the best avenue for obtaining realistic goals in a safe yet effective way. The next phase of the Fuel Fitness revamp is to focus on a personal training program and turn what was a group fitness classroom into an area geared toward personal training sessions.
“It’s our next big push,” says Colter. “Personal training is going to be huge.” Cassidee, who has worked with personal trainer Ryan Tripp, says having one-on-one attention has helped her a lot in accomplishing her personal goals and it could offer other members accountability perks to stay on track. At this point in his own fitness journey, Colter has moved on from the aesthetics of bodybuilding. “I’m more conscious about my long-term health,” he says. “My goal is maintaining a healthy lifestyle and paying attention to other things that will affect me down the line.” Colter cited the example of someone who couldn’t pick up a grandchild, and getting to see that person through the steps of achieving that goal. Being around Fuel Fitness every day, he’s fascinated by what motivates people and what their struggles are. “Seeing people overcome those is huge.”
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The Magic of a Garden The farmer selects an onion from a freshly-harvested heap, telling whispering kindergarteners how this onion, like the carrot they just tasted, was pulled from the ground this morning. She asks who would like a taste and—surprise!—multiple hands shoot up, then clamor for a chunk of sweet, raw onion. These kids are mesmerized by natural magic: a seed turns to sprout turns to thriving plant, turns to something to eat. Some of these kids have never considered a vegetable apart from something nose-crinkling (or maybe even
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“There was a lot of canned goods on the shelves,” explained Genevieve Jessop Marsh, outreach and impact director. “Making fresh food accessible to all was a big priority. So, we said, ‘Let’s start a farm.’” Those first farms—one on River Road and the PEAS Farm, located in the Rattlesnake—began Garden City Harvest’s mission to feed Missoula through community gardens. In the early 2000s, Judge John Larson sprouted the idea of youth court kids working off their sentences by working with GCH. “Hard, humble work in the soil is a natural way to heal and grow,” Genevieve said. It’s no secret that our food system can be complicated. The quest for locally-grown food is on the rise. Addressing food costs is of concern, especially for low-to moderate-income households. In 2022, GCH neighborhood farms distributed 128,715 pounds of food. Whether through CSA shares, plots tended by individual and family gardeners, school gardens, or neighborhood farms, GCH comes in contact with over 20,000 Missoulians on an annual basis, which every interaction cementing the need for, and beauty of, local food production. While founded out of—and to this day, committed to—a need to serve low-income Missoulians, Garden City Harvest also aims to help Missoula’s youth appreciate the growing lifestyle. Through a partnership with Missoula County Public Schools, every second grade class in Missoula participates in a Farmer in the Classroom program. Many kindergarten classes in Missoula tour the PEAS Farm. “They get to taste local honey on Montana bread,” Genevieve explained. “It helps kids have a better sense of place: what grows here, what energy it takes to grow food. It’s transformative.”
School farm tours grew out of local interest and a graduate student’s willingness to start an educational program. “It’s changed over the years, but one of the things that has never changed: on a field trip, the kids get to have field snacks. They hold out their hands, they taste fresh produce, and their eyes light up,” Genevieve said. “It’s fresh, from the ground.” She tells the story of a young boy who’d tasted kale for the first time on a PEAS Farm tour, fell in love, and, upon seeing the GCH mobile market arrive in his neighborhood, raced up on his bike, plopped down his allowance, and asked for kale because he wanted to share the experience with his mom. The miracle of gardening is magical, therapeutic, and logical. In eleven gardens across Missoula, 393 plots are offered for lease each summer, affording Missoula families with an opportunity to grow their own produce. The requirements are simple: apply for a plot (they’re so popular there’s a waitlist), plant at least 75 percent vegetables, and commit to organic farming practices. Genevieve sees a wide swath of Missoulians enjoying and benefiting from the gardens: young couples, young families, retirees, and veterans to name a few. Over 67 percent do not have room to garden where they live and 87 percent report their monthly grocery bill lowered as a result of raising their own vegetables. “Missoula has 11 community gardens all over town and serves 400 households. We provide the land, water, manure, tools, compost, educational resources, and staff to support a gardener’s success and enhance the experience,” said Emily Kern Swaffar, community gardens director. “When we grow and eat fresh local food together and spend
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"On a field trip, the kids get to have field snacks. They hold out their hands, they taste fresh produce, and their eyes light up,” Genevieve said. “It’s fresh, from the ground.”
time outside in nature, we grow together too—both personally and as a community.” One couple, married in the early days of the pandemic, were delighted when a neighbor at their garden presented them with the first tomato of his crop as a wedding gift. Another family made some of their best friends through their garden efforts. “A lot of what Garden City Harvest does is, of course, growing food, harvesting food. We all eat. It’s a
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connection to nature. It sustains us and makes us feel good,” Genevieve said. “The way it works—whether it’s conversations about how to grow the best tomato or in a school garden learning how pollinators and food go together, or around a table after a workshop—the feelings that are shared, that’s the ‘stuff.’ Food is a connection point. We want everyone to have a chance at that.” For more information, check out Garden City Harvest at www.gardencityharvest.org.
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Erika Fredrickson and her brother Leif remain good friends with brothers Chad and Zach Dundas after meeting at Hellgate High School in the 1990s. The four of them have a lot in common including a shared background in print journalism and interest in Montana history. Several years ago, they began looking for a collaborative way to use these backgrounds. “We thought it would be fun to work on a project together as friends where we all would bring slightly different things to the table,” said Chad. After mulling over different ideas they decided to do a podcast, dubbing it “Death in the West”. Death in the West weaves together stories using a combination of history and true crime. The four co-producers strive to educate their audience with fascinating
historical events that go way beyond murder and mayhem. “I don’t think we were ever really interested in doing a straightforward true crime podcast,” said Chad. “We always wanted to give a wider-angle view of history and use these crimes and salacious incidents to try to illuminate larger societal forces and tell a larger story.” Erika added, “There are a million stories to tell. Death doesn’t have to be murder.” The podcast is very much a collective effort, but one of the elements that makes it unique are the individual talents and interests each individual brings to the table. “It’s cool to see everybody use their specific skills as a team effort to make everything happen,” said Chad. “Zach does the voiceover. Leif is a history PhD and a public historian. Erika is adept at the
kind of writing that we do for a podcast medium and she also sold all the ads and gathered a lot of the music that we use. I do the physical production and we all collaborate on the scripts.” The first season of Death in the West focused on the murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte during the summer of 1917. Little’s murder had always been on the fringes of Montana history as the four were growing up, and they realized that no one had told the story in an in-depth audio format that their podcast would allow. Not only does the story have historical and local significance, it also touches on current issues of corporate greed and a nation politically divided. Plus, Leif had accessed archival audio about Frank Little that the group was excited to use. CONTINUED >
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The recordings feature interviews of townsfolk and miners in Butte, some of whom were alive during the murder. Using the frame of the well-known mysterious tale of D.B. Cooper’s infamous hijacking of a plane in 1971, the second season tells the little-known yet fascinating tale of Richard McCoy, who hijacked a passenger jet for ransom in 1972. McCoy was eventually tried and convicted for his crime. Cooper parachuted out of his plane somewhere between Seattle, Washington and Reno, Nevada never to be heard from again. Erika explained that research for the second season was different from the first as not much information was available on McCoy. Plus, new information came to light as the season was unfolding. “There was more of us having to react to things and trying to find the story as we carved our way through,” said Erika. “It felt more nebulous in a lot of ways, which was kind of perfect but maddening also.” Over the years, the sibling duos have found that there are many elements about making a podcast that can be maddening indeed. It took about two years of planning and trial and error to get to their first recorded episode in September of 2020. Funding was a big obstacle in the beginning and there was a steep technological learning curve of how to record the
podcast. Their biggest struggle continues to be finding the time to put it all together with it not being anyone’s full time job. “We wanted to challenge ourselves, but we thought it was going to be easier. It was way more challenging, but for the good,” said Erika. She, Leif, Chad, and Zach hope to wrap up the second season soon, then regroup and come up with a plan for how best to continue. “It’s been a labor of love,” said Chad. All this labor has begun to pay off in terms of recognition and appreciation. People have told Erika that they get shivers up their spines while listening to the podcast. Chad heard from a family that had changed the route of their vacation just so they could visit Butte after listening to Season 1. Last year Death in the West won an Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History. It was the only podcast to receive the award. “We’ve had some history professors across the country use the podcast for education,” said Erika. “It makes us feel like the work we put into making it accurate makes it stand out and makes people respect it.” You can find Death in the West anywhere you listen to podcasts. If you enjoy listening and would like to be a part of its continued success, you can make a donation on the website, www.DeathInTheWestPod.com.
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SEE-AND-DO MONTANA ARTICLE BY SUSIE WALL PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHEILA LANG-BULLARD
Sheila Lang-Bullard is not a Montana tour guide. She’s a Montana adventure guide, and there’s a big difference. Typically, tour guides offer a somewhat scripted talk that is well-rehearsed. It’s a soundtrack to a beaten path. “Instead,” said Sheila, “I am leading participants in the activity, often keeping points of interest as conversation pieces. Part of the adventure for them is experiencing the unknown.” And when you’re making the rules up as you go, with the back of your hand as your roadmap, Sheila gets to take part in the same adventurous opportunity: seeing a new day from a new perspective. Whenever someone close to us comes for a visit, there’s a stir we get in our hearts, kicking up those original but fleeting moments of infatuation with this beautiful region as we watch their eyes explode with amazement. And suddenly we become innocent in our surroundings once again, available to everything around us. Sheila is a witness to this magic, and she’s the owner and operator of Montana Adventure Shuttle, which she lovingly refers to as “Beluga”—the big white whale passenger van.
With a “see and do” mentality, MAS offers tailored half, full, and multiday experiences for anyone ready to explore. Whatever your idea of adventure is, Sheila is not only ready to transport to and equip you for your activity, she’ll go along with you, whether it’s biking, paddle boarding, or skiing. Some of her favorite excursions combine the best backdrops with their own one-of-a-kind experience, like soaking in a hot spring, kayaking, or camping. A day of exploring the National Bison Range or quietly contemplating the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas can also be a powerful experience for those who want to get out without physical strain. The options are yours: a bicycle tour along the Milwaukee Trail to discover the growth and beauty of Missoula, a brewery tour for a sampling of local flavor, hiking or driving to breathless vantage points that offer the city in its entirety. “Your trip will be what you want it to be,” said Sheila. Until 2019, when Sheila met her now husband and adventure buddy, she mostly traveled alone, which she knows can feel intimidating. She confessed, “I actually talked myself CONTINUED >
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out of trips because I was too scared to go alone. I get that. So, I’ll go with you,” said Sheila. Her company and knowledge is not only perfect for small groups, but also for the visitor whose spouse might be tied up at a work conference for the day. Or perhaps, for the single woman who heard about Missoula and came to see if it was everything she heard it was—which is exactly how Sheila got here. Or, even for Missoulians who have the day off and simply don’t want to go into the unknown without a safety buddy. Montana Adventure Shuttle’s website highlights the Guided Explorer Montana (GEM) option as the ideal “private guiding for solo adventurers." It’s designed to help individuals create that “go and see” type of day. Sheila wants her clients to know that GEM is for “when you are ready to challenge yourself, or unwind, or learn a new skill, but you don’t want to do it alone.” A pre-trip consultation will assess a guest’s goals, desires, fitness level, experience (or lack thereof) and gear needed to make their exploration successful. Montana Adventure Shuttle knows that our community is special, and guests will see that right away. That’s why MAS strives to pour back into the community. It does that in three main ways. First, “Beluga” is truly sustainable transportation. It cuts down on the number of vehicles at a trailhead parking lot and on the highway. Second, eco-hikes not only educate visitors, but also allow MAS to contribute to Five Valleys Land Trust which helped establish some of Sheila’s favorite trails like Barmeyer in Missoula. Third, MAS supports multiple businesses when it comes to renting equipment, such as Spotted Dog Cycles for bikes, Love Boat Paddle Co. for kayaks and LB Snow for ski gear. Each of these endeavors is an investment in Montana’s future adventures. Sheila doesn’t want you to limit Montana from a car window. She wants you to get CONTINUED >
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out there, moving in the mountains and our pristine but cold lakes. According to her, “Adventure is breaking out from the norm to experience something new or different. It’s typically investment traveling and experiencing a place—wild lands or a new culture.” And if you’re unsure of what that looks like, don’t worry, she’s got plenty of ideas. Her inner adventurer is always at the ready, hand on the helm, dreaming up new trips or places to go. “I’m a pretty dedicated daydreamer.”
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