Our cabin sits just shy of 10 miles from the edge of Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex—the second-largest wilderness area in the contiguous U.S. and home to a robust population of grizzly bears.
We’re talking wild country here.
But the area around our cabin is wild
in a more impractical way. Not grizzly bear wild—we’re talking dust cattle.
Dust cattle are like dust bunnies on
steroids. With the rugged and untamed surroundings—the campfires, the thick
forest, the creek flouncing through, and the mud from recent rains—it’s easy to
track all kinds of whatnot into the cabin. After a weekend of work in and
around the place, Desiree swept the floor before we packed up and wound our way
down the mountain roads to our wide valley home. The result of her efforts: a healthy
collection of dust cattle.
I’m sharing a photo of the dust
cattle beside a Cold Smoke beer, for scale and accuracy.
—Mitchell Hegman
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