Monthly Archives: October 2014

Montana Agate

In August 2014 I took a ride on a Harley Davidson Road King around Flathead Lake, Montana, visiting rock shops to find Montana Agate (also called moss agate), a chalcedony with black moss-like inclusions found in Yellowstone river riverbeds.

Montana Agate
Montana Agate
Montana Agate outside skin
Montana Agate – outside skin of the rock
Montana Agate cut in half
Montana Agate cut in half

Rock shops visited: Junction Rock Shop, Montana Within Rock Shop LLC, Kehoe’s Agate Shop, Mineralholics LLC, The Treasure Outpost in Whitefish, Rocks and Things Metaphysical.

Canadian Rockies on a Road King

A 10-day Harley Davidson Road King motorcycle trip from Missoula, Montana to Jasper, Alberta and back, through Glacier National Park, Banff, and the Icefields Parkway.

Grizzly Bear in Hidden Lake
Grizzly Bear in Hidden Lake
Mountain goat
Mountain goat
Chief Mountain
Chief Mountain with threatening thunderstorm
Plain of 6 Glaciers
Plain of 6 Glaciers
Crowfoot glacier
Crowfoot glacier
Columbia icefield
Columbia icefield
Saskatchewan Glacier
Saskatchewan Glacier from Parker Ridge
Big Horn sheep
Big Horn sheep in Radium Springs
Our ride
Our ride!