Gates of the Mountains Boat Tour including the Mann Gulch Fire of 1949 near Helena, Montana.
Join us as we embark on a two hour boat tour of the “Gates of the Rocky Mountains” as first described by Lewis and Clark in their journals during the Corps of Discovery in 1805.
Kyle, our boat captain and tour guide, was both enthusiastically entertaining and informative. Although he was responsible for over 80 people today, he still had time to provide us with two hours of expert narration on the gates, its limestone cliffs, and interesting stories of early explorers, natural wonders and wildlife of the area.
Kyle narrated the tour from memory. I know that his stories could go on for hours. Unfortunately the tour was only two hours long!
If you plan on taking this excellent summer boat tour please be aware the tour boats run on the hour during weekends/holidays and every two hours on weekdays. The older (1950’s vintage) wooden tour boat can be covered in case of rain. I still remember the wooden tour boat we took over 40 years ago in the mid-70’s! You can still see it in operation in a couple of scenes.
Kyle also explained in great detail the incident at Mann Gulch where 13 smokejumpers lost their lives in 1949. The incident is the subject of author Norman Maclean's book "Young Men and Fire", the same author who wrote "A River Runs through It".
This sequence was captured with a Canon Vixia HFS-100 camera and edited with Adobe Premier Pro 6.
2 авг 2015
