Mount Sentinel
Location: Missoula, MT
View from just below the M on Mount Sentinel in Missoula, October, 2007
200 degree overhead view of the Clark Fork River flowing through downtown Missoula from Mount Sentinel and the University of Montana in the foreground. Bitterroot Valley beginning on the left, with the Rattlesnake area and "The L" L on Mount Jumbo on the right side.
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I've spent a lot of great times in and around Missoula. I have many friends that make it their home, and we try to visit as much as possible. However, even after dozens of attempts, I had never been able to capture the right image of town. The location and weather had just never cooperated for me. Then finally, on a recent early October morning, I hiked Mount Sentinel in hopes that the sunrise would light up the fall colors that had begun to start to change all over the valley. As a few students from down at the University of Montana began to gather around the M and watch what I was doing, I finally got the image I had always wanted. A full 200 degree view from the south canyon to Lolo, all the way north to the Bitteroot River and the Rattlesnake.....
