MWSB - Hunter Graduation

This past weekend Hunter graduated from his one year program at Montana Wilderness School of the Bible. It’s been a fast 9 months. 

Abbie and I flew out to Montana and attended the graduation and then we drove home with Hunter in his rig.  He will be home for a couple months getting surgery on his wrist + recovery.  

We snapped a couple of cool picks of the windmills and farmland on the north central Oregon plateau on the way home. 

Hunter Fall backpacking

Hunter finished the first two weeks of school and as a school they went on a fall backpacking trip for 7 days. Each student could sign up for a 10, 35,45 or 70 mile trip. Can you guess which one Hunter chose? You got it…..he chose the 70 miler.

Here are the pictures of the students and a little write up of the week.

Hunter off to MWSB for the school year


We just got back from a week to Montana dropping Hunter off at Montana Wilderness School of the Bible. This is a 9 month program to set him up for a solid life foundation. 

Abbie couldn’t make it on this trip with us due to here high school cheer training schedule so we missed having her with us. 

To break the trip up on the way there we drove a little more than half way to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and spent the night. Weather was hot so we spent the following morning at the lake before traveling on. 

We stopped briefly in Missoula to check out the University of Montana and got huckleberry shakes in St. Regis, MT.


Day 2 ended arriving in Montana staying at an off grid airbnb near Craig Montana. 

Day 3 we stayed relatively local going to Great falls and visiting the Lewis and Clark center along with a state park - Giant springs.  Great falls is where the Lewis and Clark expedition had to spend a month portaging around 5 waterfalls.  
I’m the evening we explored more around our cabin. 


Day 4 we went to the east side of glacier national park.  An area called two Medicine Lake.  

 
Day 5 was drop off day for Hunter. The schools is in such a beautiful setting tucked back at the end of a canyon road (Dearborn canyon) with no cell service making it the perfect location to study and fellowship with the 65 other students there. 

We are hoping the other kids want to go as well. Here are some videos I took to show Abbie some of the campus grounds since she couldn’t make it. 

We feel really good about this school for hunter. 

Quick visit to central Montana

Hunter is registered to attend the Montana Wilderness School of the Bible in the fall is 2023 so we wanted to do a visit to the campus before going. The campus is located on the edge of the Bob Marshall Wilderness in central Montana. 

We flew into Helena Montana  - the capital on Wednesday and visited the capital building and surroundings.

From Helena we drove 1.5 hours north to Augusta Montana - the closest town the the school. Augusta has around 400 people. We stayed at an airbnb on the edge of town and grabbed dinner at a local diner  

Thursday we visited the school. Sat in on the classes and toured around. It’s a beautiful spot at the end of the road in a canyon.  There is a river flowing through the campus.  We stopped by a frozen lake at the entrance to the canyon where the kids go skating  

Lots of beautiful open country even in the middle of winter. 

Friday we travelled north to the coolest little ski hill called Teton pass. A true locals hill open open Friday to Sunday. It felt like you were transported back to the 1960s. There might have been 40 people skiing this day. 

Saturday we drove back south and stopped by a semi ghost town call Marysville.  From there we had lunch at Costco in Helena before heading to the airport. Helena is a small regional airport but seems pretty new. Very nice inside. 

If all goes well we will be back to this area late summer to drop off Hunter for school.