Riding High - Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana

Crazy enough, surfers and kayakers are out riding downtown Missoula's Brennan's Wave during the worst spring flooding on the Clark Fork River since 1908. (But they did provide some entertainment during our evening stroll to savour the latest Sweet Peaks flavours - which will ship to your very door!)

Click here to contrast the above scene across the river to the old Milwaukee rail depot with this similar and more typical view in August 2013. The above photo is conspicuously lacking mid-river islands and the shore-hugging rocks shown in the 2013 foreground - which are underneath a good part of this week's perfect wave.

Spring Kayaking - Brennan's Wave, Missoula, Montana

"I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water . . . has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river."

 -- Roderick Haig-Brown (1908-1976)