Plenty of Happenings for you to attend Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Saturday, September, 10th, 2011

Huckleberry Hillclimb - Mountain Bike Race

7am  Whitefish Mountain Resort, Whitefish, MT
http://www.skiwhitefish.com/

7 – 8 am check in and late Registration for all racers
8:15 am: start at base of road.
9:00 am: start at Bike Shop.
11:30 am: Awards at Summit House.
Entry Fee: $25.00 per person

This traditional mountain bike race has evolved into a bicycle hillclimb from the bottom of Big Mountain Road to the Summit House. The length of the Ultimate King/Queen route is 13 miles, with 3700 vertical feet of climbing. The King/Queen route starts at the rental shop and is eight miles long with a 2,200 vertical climb. Helmets are required. Contact 862-2900 for more information.


The Swan Rangers
7:30 am meet at Echo Lake Cafe on the Swan Highway near Bigfork, MT for breakfast at 7:30 am, leaving at 8:30 for a partial day outing in the nearby Swan Range.  Those not wishing to join the group for breakfast can simply show up in the Swan River School parking lot across the street from the Echo Lake Café at 8:15 am to carpool for the day's outing.

Meeting times, a suggested gear list, and archived photo-reports of past Swan Ranger outings can all be found on the "hiking" page at http://www.swanrange.org./
This is a "stop and smell the roses" hiking club for folks of all skill levels.


Annual Polson, MT Fly-In - Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1122
8 am - 4 pm Polson Airport
Free Admission.

$5 Breakfast of pancakes, ham and eggs from 8am to Noon.
Aircraft on display, including float planes, homebuilt, experimental and antique aircraft.  Raffle prizes, concessions as well as airplane and helicopter rides.

Drawings for free AV Gas for pilots who fly into the fly-in. Kids can sign up for future Young Eagle rides.

Come out to the Polson airport on Saturday morning September 10th, have a great breakfast, see all the different aircraft.


Fifth Annual Raptor Day - IN MEMORY OF ROD ASH
8:00 am Lone Pine State Park, Kalispell, MT     
Join in the celebration of northwest Montana birds and commemorates the lifetime contribution of Rod Ash to conservation.

The following Raptor Day events are:
8 a.m. Early Risers Bird Walk led by Ben Young
10 a.m. Family Bird Walk led by Ansley Ford
11 a.m. Tribute to Rod Ash and Family Program featuring Denny “Critterman Olson
1:30 p.m. Status and Conservation of Raptors in the Northern Rockies with Dan Casey of The American Bird Conservancy
2:30 p.m. Conserving Raptors in the Mission Valley with Byron Crow of Montana Raptor Institute

There will also be educational booths,

including Wildlife Return’s live birds,

kids activities and food vendors available.

The event is co-sponsored by Flathead Audubon Society and Lone Pine State Park, with funding from the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation.

Admission is free for Montana residents.

For more information, contact Lone Pine State Park at 755-2706 or Ashley Mason of the Flathead Audubon Society at 755-2772.


31st Annual Whitefish, MT Soccer Games
9am Grouse Mountain and Smith Fields, Whitefish, MT

Adult teams both mens' and womens' will be competing from the major Montana cities, plus players from Washington, Idaho, Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatoon. Fantastic tournament, Free for spectators...games will run from 9 am to 6 pm  both days. mailto:colin@markatton.net

Annual Fun Fly and Swap Meet
10 am - 4 pm Glacier RCers Flying Field, Kalispell, MT
Whitefish Stage Road 1 mile south of Highway 40, 6 miles north of Reserve

Event features flying exhibitions of radio controlled airplanes, including large planes, war planes, old bi-planes and jets.

Covered seating
Food and beverages will be available.
Prizes will be raffled each day.
Admission is $5 per car.


18th Annual Antique Engine and Tractor Show
10 am - 5 pm
Olsen Pioneer Park, Kalispell - east of Glacier Int'l Airport on Pioneer and Helena Flats Road.

NorthWest Antique Power Association 18th annual antique engine and tractor show  with Stationary engine displays; sawmill, shingles, woodturning, threshing & grinding demonstrations; blacksmithy, mini railroad rides, quilt show,and classic tractor parade at  1 pm.
Vendors and concessions.
$5.00 admission.


20th Annual Dayton Daze, Dayton, MT
10 am Idle Spur Saloon

The Chief Cliff Fire Service Area is sponsoring its 20th Annual Dayton Daze celebration at the Idle Spur Saloon on September 10th, 2011.

Sailboat rides at the Dayton Yacht Club from 10 am -3 pm

Wine tasting at the Mission Mountain Winery from 10 am -5 pm
Ladies Aid Bazaar at the Dayton Church with lunch from 11am -2 pm

Parade line-up at 2 pm with parade at 3 pm
Pig roast and music at the Idle Spur from 4:30 pm until closing

Be sure to buy a raffle ticket as the fire department is raffling off a $300 and $200 fuel voucher along with an assortment of other prizes.

For more information, contact Zoe Lilja at 849-5917 or Rhonda Walter 849-5686.


Raceway Park
Saturday, September 10th
7 pm - 10:30 pm
Miller Lite presents the Kalipsell Toyota Late Model Series Championship
and the Wild Hogs Bomber 50 presented by Heinz Henke and Young 6 Racing plus compacts

$12 per Adult;   $10 per Child

http://www.montanaracewaypark.com/
Raceway Park Location: Located 6 miles North of Kalispell off Highway 93
Operator: Montana Raceway Park, Inc.
Length & Shape: One quarter mile oval inside, 3/8 miles outside
Surface: Asphalt
Turns: Banked at 12'; length of turns 180' - width of turns 65'
Straight Stretch: (both sides); 300' long, 55 feet wide
Crash Walls: Front stretch 540', back stretch 531'
Start/Finish Line: Center of front straight stretch
Pit Capacity and Surface: 100 teams - Completely asphalt
Pit Locations: Next to track, back stretch wall
Control Tower: Center of main grandstands, 25' above track surface
Grandstand Capacity: 4,000


9th Annual Worldwide Paint Out  Riverside Park in Polson., MT
9 am Painters bring their your own equipment and check in.
4 pm Showing and sale of work and photos for IPAP 

Come watch the Artist ply their skills - Public welcome.

Event sponsored by Interational Plein Air Painters Organization and Sandpiper Art Gallery.
Contact: Sandpiper Art Gallery 406-883-5956

Bigfork's 4th Annual Rumble in the Bay Car Show Sunday, September 4th, 2011

Come and enjoy one of the best little car shows in Montana!

Bigfork's 4th Annual Rumble in the Bay Car Show

Sunday, September 4th, 2011 9 am to 5 pm

Creative and Native Store and the Bigfork Area Chamber of Commerce, invite you to join them in Bigfork for their 4th Annual Rumble in the Bay Car Show.

Open to all years, makes and models of MOTORCYCLES too!

Activities include a Show and Shine, a downtown poker walk, poker run around Bigfork, 50/50 split the pot and raffles. And costume contest for car owners dressed in the era of their car’s.

Every hour on the hour “get ready to rumble” as we give everyone a chance to rev up those engines and make Bigfork rumble.

New this year - Kid's Custom Bicycle Show - ages 18 and younger.

Awards for car and motorcycle participants in the form of 30 unique, signed & numbered trophies designed by local Bigfork artist Eric Thorsen.

Best of Show being chosen by public vote.

Rumble by the Bay Car show is also teaming up with the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 102 (EAA 102) for their Second Annual Rumble Over the Bay Fly-In to be held at the Ferndale Airport.  Enjoy free shuttle service to the airport and back to enjoy an exciting day of aviation activities including airplane and helicopter rides. Over 100 aircraft and pilots are expected.

•All Day Sunday from 9-5

•Registration starts 9-2
•Show & Shine 10-3
•Downtown Poker Walk 10 -2
•Bigfork Poker Run 11-1
•Costume Contest Winners announced at 3pm
•Trophy Winner’s announced at 3:15pm
•50/50 split the pot
•Tim and Dyno Machine

•BBQ & Beverages "after the show party" hosted by The Tall Pine Lounge starting at 4:30pm

Consider taking this GNP hike. It will give you memories to recall for many years.

Otokomi Lake – 11 miles round trip

A strenuous hike with a 1900 ft. elevation gain.

Starting at the Rising Sun Motor Inn in Glacier National Park, follow the trail towards Otokomi Lake. The trail parallels the east side of Rose Creek. Rose creek drainage from St. Mary Lake to the headwaters of Otokomi Lake is dominated by a series of fast-moving water cascades, impressive waterfalls, and turquoise pools of water……..a photographers delight. Most of these sights cannot be seen, from the "Going To The Sun Road. It’s only by hiking this lovely trail that we can experience, such a peaceful bit of nature.

One of the numerous enjoyments of this hike is to view the outstanding colorful rocks that make up the Rose Basin in which Otokomi Lake sets. The rock walls surrounding the lake are a deep, dark, throbbing red. Within this red basin bright green highlights of the stunted alpine Douglas firs and meadow grass seem to almost glow in a clear blue sky above.

A day hike or short backpack from Rising Sun Motor Lodge to Otokomi Lake. The trail begins in the wooded St. Mary Valley, and climbs around a hillside to the west to enter the Rose Creek drainage.

The trail passes Rose Creek along the Lewis thrust fault to a low-elevation cirque lake among blocky, reddish mountains.

As you hike along Rose Creek, we will go through a forested area of juniper trees, Douglas fir, maple, and many other tall trees. On the ground you find wild roses, asters, paintbrush, fireweed and beargrass. This trail shows off nature at her best.

As you leave the creek side, we will climb the trail upward going back and forth on switchbacks then climb through a forest of Douglas Fir and Lodgepole Pine. The needles from these trees will make soft footing through here. This is a dense area with trees.

After hiking along the forested creek valley for 2.5 miles past pools and small waterfalls, you climb onto an open rockslide area and Suddenly, you hike out of the trees and find yourself high above Rose creek from here Goat Mountain is clearly visible across the lake. This impressive view of Goat Mountain as it rises to an altitude of 8,826 feet is spectacular.

As you approach the Otokomi Lake basin, you cross a large slope of scree (also called talus an accumulation of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, or valley shoulders) and avalanche area where one can easily visualize the glacial action that carved the U-shaped valley where talus slopes come down from Goat Mountain at 8826' to Otokomi Lake.

Just before reaching the lake, the trail passes Otokomi Campground (back country permit needed to camp here overnight), located to the left of the trail. The trail bends around to the south-west before arriving at the outlet to Otokomi Lake. The lake covers the floor of the Rose Basin, named for the ruddy argillite cliffs surrounding the cirque.

The remoteness of this lake with the striking view of the surrounding basin is a panorama of sheer beauty!