CONTRIBUTORS AND
Staff PUBLISHERS Bill Muhlenfeld and Anthea George
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Valerie Harms
ART DIRECTOR AND DESIGNER Robert Rath
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ellen Baumler Savannah Barnes Virginia Bryan Brian D’Ambrosio Caroline Deppe Faure Halvorsen Lori Grannis
Anika Hanisch Valerie Harms Kim Ibes
Bill Muhlenfeld Jessica Solberg Steve Smede
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Ellen Baumler Randy Beacham Brian D’Ambrosio Royce Gorsuch Jeremie Hollman Kim Ibes
Bob Martinka
PRINT MANAGEMENT Pam Koehler, Koehler + Co.
WEB SITE Bill Edmonson, Thermal Creative Co ver
Bill McDavid David Milne
Loneman Photography Pam Moriarity W. Steve Sherman Jessica Solberg
Montana boots are well- worn collectors of trails and tales and, if their leathery tongues could wag, they would reminisce of high peaks and spring meadows, of quiet walks and long tramps, of friendships and forests. They would tell of what crag scarred their soles, of what morning dew beaded their toes, of what special dirt yet cringes in the eyelets, soon to poof from the
tight snap of a shoestring. Why is it always dif- ficult to give up your old boots for the shiny and new? Memories and miles, nothing more.
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