Pimp my ride !

I admit.

It's just to attract Ruben's attention, but really it's not about bringing my car to a gang of cool guys so that they make it a space wagon. No this post is dedicated to my "new" beloved Mountain Bike! This blue an black beauty I bought mid august. It proved a very good investment. At the end of august there was a BBQ week-end organized for RightNow developers at one of Hyalite Canyon's camping spots, just next to the reservoir. So we biked there (Sarah & I) form my apartment. It was a 17 miles uphill trip. Pretty exhausting! The way back was pure pleasure, 17 miles downhill... Two weeks ago we went to the college M trail, and took a picture of me with one of the forest department officers as you can see on the right. He didn't look really at ease. I think he could use a good razor, anyway, that was a nice ride. Everyday (almost) I bike to work, it's refreshing and wakes me up the hard way. We recently started to get in a running habit, about 15 minutes everyday. Man, that's super hard, I'm not a runner but I'll improve!

I still like doing some cooking, it's super nice after some exercise. Good, tasty and as healthy as possible. This time it was Salmon grilled with a lemon sauce and some mashed potatoes. Not so bad!

Montana clem, quite a visual experience.

PS: The last picture is from Bozeman at night, but when I took it I was moving and it was well pretty dark of course, so the result is weird but kinda artistic in a way...

Fancy trip to the fairy lake

fairy lake clean water

Clean water for a change, no trans-fat, not in a bottle. Today we've been to the "fairy lake", a very pretty spot, 30 minutes from Bozeman. It's located in the Bridgers mountains, the ones that has the college M, but on the other side. Well anyway, that was one good occasion to take my camera out. Unfortunately I discovered when I arrived at the lake that I forgot the 1Gb SD-Card in my computer's slot. I've been taking some pics lately of my brand new bike !! (but I'll talk about it in another post) and stuff around Bozeman. Today let's focus on the Fairy Lake, it's a little heaven out of the city, at about 6000 feet.

We've been driving there with Sarah's Oldsmobile Intrigue, It's a pretty cool car she has but definitely a city ride. So that was great until we arrived on the fairy lake trail, 7 miles of off-road pleasure. Quite bumpy, but definitely fun (except that sometimes we were a bit worried about breaking the car, but oh well what's a car after all), there were some cows around in the forest, which was pretty weird. I guess the rancher who owns them must be pretty confident that they will find their way back! As we were gaining altitude we had a great view on the valley and the Bridger canyon.

Finally we arrived at the Fairy lake. Seriously if I could buy a little cabin, I would put it right there. The scenery is truly beautiful, on one side impressive mountains (Bridgers) on the other side there are a few trees and a big valley.

There is a small trail around the lake, and when the sun reflects on the water it makes thousands of shiny sparkles, thousands of fairies dancing upon the water, mystique whirling little lights, inspiring fantasy and day dreaming.

Thanks for reading montana clem. More poetry to come (maybe) and crazy stories (for sure). We appreciate your business.