Entries Posted in September, 2010
by Molly Douma Brewer
Riding the Beartooth Highway and our guide, happy in the snow at the top of the pass.
The Beartooth Highway - a rugged ribbon of road once deemed “America’s most beautiful road” by acclaimed travel journalist, Charles Kuralt - was the focus of our most recent press trip. The first morning we woke to a cool August drizzle which transformed to a sideways-snowing blizzard as we rose from Red Lodge to the top of Beartooth Pass at 9800 feet. Our plan ...
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by Molly Budinsky
Last week a few of us attended the Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte, Montana. Winding down the first night with a drink at the Cavalier Lounge, we asked the bartender where we should go for breakfast the next morning. He couldn’t say Bob & Sandy’s (B&S) Café fast enough.
Always a group to take a local’s suggestion, we made the trek to the breakfast joint the next morning, and not only did we enjoy a very ...
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by Jeff Welch
“Small can be an advantage” I heard recently in Butte, Montana.
No kidding. Where else—who else—in the world gets to hear four of the top CEOs in the world all before lunch?!
But that’s what we got in little old Butte, Montana on Monday morning when Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, Jeff Immelt of GE and Barry Diller of Expedia took the stage. Okay, Buffett was via satellite, but let’s not nitpick ...
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by Kendra White
This weekend I camped at Madison Junction in Yellowstone — Friday until yesterday. No, we didn’t get rained out but had a snowstorm while cooking dinner Sunday night. On Saturday, a group of people camped next to us, riding in on bikes and settling up a camp of a few tents and wind shelters. One of the group, Charlie Kain, came over to visit after we started asking about biking through Yellowstone.
What we learned is that they are the ...
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by Jeff Welch
Count us among the many fans of the clothing brand Patagonia — though as marketing people, perhaps more so for the way they manage their brand than the clothes themselves. Regardless, like most fans, we’re keen to spend a few moments paging through the latest catalogue to see what cool photos they’ve found and what the wizards of Ventura are up to.
So it was our pleasure to see a piece of work we had created turn up in ...
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