grizcountry420
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You can get to Cooke City by vehicle in the winter. Don't know about Yaak though
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oldngrizzly
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Powder River is where it's at fellas. If you ain't been to powder river you ain't a real cowboy Let ER Buck.
Try Roscoe and it's famous T shirt snd bumper sticker: " Where the hell is Roscoe ?"
Roscoe, between Red Lodge and Absorkee, is one of the front doors to The Beartooth-Absaroka Wilderness along with the trails outside of Red Lodge anf Cooke City, a million acres of The Beartooth and Absaroka ( Ab-sa-roh-ka) Mountains, the biggest contiguous area in the Lower 48 above 10,000 feet, featuring big horn sheep, fuzzy white mountain goats, moose, elk and mule deer @ lower elevations, wolves, mountain lions, wolverines, and yes, plenty of our namesake grizzly bears.
And you can now, for a cool $ 1 million, buy a great steak house and bar in Roscoe with a great name: The Grizzly Bar !!!
Better get that steak quick because the bar is closing down at the end of August.
Griz in Texas
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I don't think that's just a hollow feeling in Yaak. Lots of strange characters hang out at the Dirty Shame Saloon.
mthoopsfan
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If you're with me, we can get good steaks at my Dartmouth buddy's ranch at Roscoe. "Switchback Ranch is one of the larger cattle ranching operations in the Northern Rockies, running 2,000 animal units over approximately 160,000 acres of deeded and leased ranch land in Wyoming and Montana." He's got a ranch in the Crazies too, and owns some of the tallest peaks. "The "Lazy K Bar Ranch" is a historic dude ranch located near Big Timber, Montana, in the Crazy Mountains. It is known for being the oldest continuously operated family-owned dude ranch in Montana, established in 1922. The ranch offers a variety of activities, including horseback riding, fishing, and hiking, with a focus on providing a serene and relaxing experience in a natural setting. The Lazy K.Bar Ranch also has a connection to a recently released bourbon whiskey, Lazy K Bar Bourbon, which aims to capture the spirit of the Wild West."Better get that steak quick because the bar is closing down at the end of August.
mthoopsfan
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How's Bear Creek Saloon & Steakhouse in Bearcreek. My daughter is having her Thursday night wedding event there in September.Better get that steak quick because the bar is closing down at the end of August.
oldngrizzly
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Hey, I spend more than a few nights at the Dirty Shame. Was huntin moose in the Yaak. No problems if your carrying but maybe you tourist fellas might have an issue ?
oldngrizzly
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Never need spellin makin nickels . Counting money is how I roll.
Griz in Texas
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Definitely would not advise going in there if you don't know one of the locals and you're flying solo. We had our hunting camp up in that area for years around Lost Horse Mountain, definitely a lot of moose. None of my group of 5 ever drew a tag but we helped drag out a half dozen or so over the years and listened to a lot of Griz-Cat games on the radio.
mthoopsfan
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Some of the Yaak comments make me think they are coming from people who didn’t grow up in Montana.
Griz in Texas
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Not sure why you would. Since I posted first about it in response to remote places, three other people have responded, and I didn't get the same impression. I honestly didn't think it was a prerequisite to be from Montana to comment, however. I didn't make it one, I just figure if they have been there, they have been there, and they may comment.
billingsgriz
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Maybe in her honor they will have their world famous pig races, the Montana bovine equivalent of The Kentucky Derby !!!
On a somber note, Bearcreek is the site of the Smith Mine Disaster of 1943 that killed 73 miners. I know a Brother Mason and Shriner whose dad died in the worst underground coal mine disaster in Montana history.
billingsgriz
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My bad: replace bovine ( cattle ) with swine-- I had to change that or the ranchers in the family will disown me completely--they pretty much have done so already anyway because they're Shi__y Kitties. : ( .
GriznMN
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The Yaak (and pretty much anywhere west of Lake Koocanuska and north of Libby) - YKIFYK.
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mthoopsfan
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I know the Yaak. I have been in that area 50 times in recent decades. Relatives up there. I taught the kid Johnston how to golf. Helped him score 49 in hoops against Loyola his senior year. Ha.
GriznMN
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It's been a while since I've bee in the area but my family had a hunting camp up Pipe Creek Road while I was growing up and after I left Montana.
billingsgriz
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Better get that steak quick because the bar is closing down at the end of August.
Not if, Wolf, someone buys The Grizzly Bar--I think she's asking $ 1-1 2 million, somewhere in that vicinity, and the bar is the obvious focal point of Roscoe, which has under 100 residents and, at least when I ate there, was a steak and prime-rib lover's dream !!!
Always found it hit and miss and overpriced once the Red Lodge crowd found it. The Edgar Bar has always been far better.
oldngrizzly
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BUT< BUT< have you ever got so drunk you fell off the bar stool at the Dirty Shame?
Griz in Texas
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We originally went in through Eureka to get to our camp near the Lost Horse lookout, but we soon discovered Pipe Creek up to Drop Creek was maybe a little farther, but faster to get to the same place. We played with the idea of camping at Big Creek and bringing horses in and riding up the trail from there but did pretty well in the wall tent for 10 days a season. It was just that a lot of those years we had to chain up on all four.
