Wildflower Walks

Missoulian reporter Rob Chaney wrote this the other day. Not exactly floral, but huckleberries are fragrant.

You didn’t hear this from us, but it’s a great huckleberry season this year.

As secretive as they are, there’s not much huck hunters can do to hide the berry-covered hillsides around western Montana. A wet spring and a couple of midsummer rainshowers have provided ideal growing conditions for the popular wild fruit.

“It’s doing very good,” Huckleberry Patch gift shop supervisor Shauna Clevidence said one morning this week while juggling a rush of customers at 9:45 a.m. “The lower patches have already been picked, so people have to go to the higher elevations.”

Read the full story here.

Here are the results of a recent picking trip I took with some friends.

Justin Grigg