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| The family up at Montana Tech. |
I got an award last weekend from Montana Tech, called the Chancellor's Medallion. Many Montana Tech graduates go on to huge success in the oil and mining (and other) industries, but the current Tech Chancellor, Don Blackketter, wanted to also award people like me, who've achieved success in higher education, so he created the Chancellor's Medallion. It was an honor to get the award. I found out after the fact that one of my old Butte High/Montana Tech/Montana State classmates, Becky Johnson was behind nominating me, which makes the award even sweeter. Thanks Becky!
I went over to Butte for the festivities Thursday afternoon. In between engagements on Friday, I went and climbed Jack Mountain outside of Basin, Montana. Jack is a P2000 (2000+ feet of prominence) summit. I'd never been in this area before, and it was cool to see it. The route to the summit followed a road and was on snow, but it was a hot day, so the snow was unconsolidated making the outing strenuous and the skiing poor. Still it was good to get out and bag another P2000 summit.
Finally, after commencement on Saturday, and a barbecue with an old friend, who happened to be there for the graduation of his son, Jen and I rode the Beaver Ponds and Toll Mountain from the top of Pipestone Pass. Butte has such great mountain biking, and the Beaver Ponds are where I got my start mountain biking back in the early 90s, so it was nostalgic to be back.
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| Jack Mountain behind me. |
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| Pudge on the summit. It was a tough day for him. |
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| Jack Mountain summit, looking southeast, toward Bozeman. |
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| Jack Mountain summit, looking northeast, toward the Elkorn Range. |
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| The climb up Toll Mountain. |
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| The Highlands from Toll Mountain. |
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| Happy mountain biker on cherry Butte single track. |
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