2016 Chinese New Year Parade

Butte's Chinese New Year Parade is tomorrow afternoon at 3 pm.  The Mai Wah Museum has a brand new dragon this year.  This is a really fun and unique event that should not be missed.  Here are some pics from last years parade:

Fish Butte's Blacktail Creek

Blacktail Creek brook trout

Butte's Blacktail Creek flows out of the Highlands Mountains and right through town.  This little, urban gem is often overlooked by fly anglers.  Blacktail has tons of access right of the city trail system and has a great population of brook trout.

There are some signs of old Butte along the banks.  These old bottles were fun to sift through.

Blacktail is not your average Montana wilderness stream but it is a great option for a quicky after work or a good excuse to bring a rod when you go on that walk with your significant other or child.

Blacktail near the confluence of Silver Bow Cr with Big Butte in the background

While some sections go through beautiful parks and ranch lands, other sections are very urban.

Blacktail baby geese

Blacktail brook trout

You don't have to travel far to get that small stream fix when you live in Butte.  Check out Blacktail!

Happy, lucky, healthy Chinese New Year

Mai Wah's Chinese New Year Dragon

The Chinese New Year parade in Butte, Montana is a trip!

Businesses all around uptown were visited, had evil spirits scared away, and were wished goo luck for the coming year of the goat (or sheep).

Chinese New Year Parade with the Berkeley Pit high wall in the background

A good crowd of people showed up to chase the dragon around Uptown Butte.

Out front of the Mai Wah Museum in Butte's old Chinatown.

Dragon Scale

Yet another reason why Butte is the coolest city in Montana...

More big news at RBM headquarters



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am humbled, honored, and beyond excited to have been accepted into the Montana Tech family.  Origionally known as the Montana State School of Mines, MT Tech is a bad-ass little school on the hill in Butte, America.

 

I never thought I'd get my high school diploma, let alone, graduate from college.  Now, I'll be taking my crazy little life to a whole new horizon; graduate school.  Yikes!

 

Butte is right in the center of western Montana.  I will literally be surrounded by world famous trout streams in all directions.  There is also some great fishing right in and around town. 

 

For those of you that don't know, Butte is also one of the craziest places you will ever go, as well as a huge EPA Superfund Site.  I'll be doing my work/studies right in the mess on the hill.

 

Look forward to reports on my new adventures, discoveries, and stories from one of the coolest cities in the country. 

 

GO DIGGERS!!