Summer Bucket List for 2017

By Robert Lucke

The term Bucket List comes from a movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman who go around doing wonderful things they have always wanted to do before they "kick the bucket".

For several years at "The Mountaineer" we have composed winter and summer bucket lists of things to do that are close to home.

We think with pride that our list is so much better than other newspapers who feature things like drive from one end of US Highway 2 from North Dakota to Idaho and to visit the four towns that are closest to the four corners of Montana. Not much excitement there.

However, our...