On Dec 18, 11:20*am, Larry L wrote:
On Dec 17, 7:27*pm, DaveS wrote:

. Did
the Lolo stuff put you off? Yeah there were scary people like that.

Nothing really "put me off" ..... and nothing "turned me on"

As a lover of both fly fishing and the Mountain West, I expected the
latter .... given, as I said, the movies reputation for "causing" the
fly fishing fad in the years after it came out *... I expected to be
itching to go fishing in Montana after watching it ... I wasn't

UM, a bit more....

I don't look back on my own drunken, drugging, days as anything even
close to "romantic" ... I know too many that died, or otherwise wasted
their lives, *from that "romance" * * I don't dispute the accuracy of
a story basically about such waste and death, I just don't see the
reported appeal that would bring the masses charging to Montana, fry
rods in hand. * * *That story could have been set anywhere, ime, *and
been equally accurate

... and depressing because of that accuracy.

Well probably so Larry. Maybe told my part a little romantically but
not much. I wasn't going up miles of mountain road snow/student car
for drunken an drugging; I was going up there to work weekends. The
tourons drank for fun. Locals had their own reasons. Its sometimes
easy to miss community when its hard to see beyond the pathologies.

OK enough heavy ****. Montana isn't for everyone, thank God. Ever been
to Butte?

Dave :+))