Tempted though I am to write and tell you that, horrors of all horrors, the snowpack in Montana (as it actually did two out of the last five years, btw!) has simply vanished overnight, but to do so would put unnecessary worries and fears in your minds and hearts where, at least for the moment, no such fears exist. In fact, as of this moment the snow pack in both the Clark Fork and Bitterroot River Basins are tracking in the very high 90th percentiles and, get this, the year to date precipitation level in our E-16 targeted Blackfoot basin is exactly at 100% of twenty year averages.
Now, the advent of April marks a couple of important milestones in our collective lives: first, Group One arrives on the scene in just 70 days from today and, secondly, my avid fly fishing and now hunter daughter in just over one month now finishes her three year law curriculum at Missoula’s University of Montana and will become a UM graduate with her JD on May 21st—congrats, babe!!
So, let’s check the scorecard as we enter baseball season this weekend: (a) E-16 is all but full with just two open slots in Group Two (which will see a visit from the MT governor); (b) literally today I am taking delivery of one of the main E-16 gifts for each of you, reserving, as I do annually, the unfettered right to treat each of your extravagantly; (c) the snowpack and weather is riding perfectly for us; and (d) with but a mere 70 days separating today from Extravaganzaland, it is time to locate those rods and reels, dust off all of that fly fishing gear and clothing and begin putting your sights on attending our 14th foray into the wilds of western Montana Ritz-Carlton style!
Best to all this budding April day!!
RCR---<’///:><
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