Sleepy doesn't even begin to describe the MT chapter. We've planned 2 get togethers in the past 3 months. The first one had 4 people show up. The second was completely canceled, due to lack of response/people finding other things more important to do. It's pretty sad here, as no one participates in our forum, even though I see a bunch of Montanans in other areas on the site.

I think that both Alberta and MT have a lot in common in that they're huge places with little population, though you do have 2 pretty large cities and we don't even have one. It's just hard to gather everyone up.

BTW, when I was 19 I lived in Spirit River, AB for about 9 months and loved it there. I went up with a harvest crew cutting wheat and stayed on to break colts with the rancher we had cut for. Some of the best times in my life were up there.