this is Mt Aeneas from my driveway-
then this is panning just north(left) along the Swan Range
shots were from the droid- not as crisp as I'd like, but you get the general idea- mtns, no people, fresh air, no people, quiet, no people...
My kind of place.
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Sounds like my Uncle's place in Eastern Oregon.
Buttes, no people, sagebrush, no people. Eight miles to the nearest pavement, 40 miles to pick up mail.
If it weren't for the Coyotes and Rattlesnakes it would seem like heaven.
Still looks cold there. We finally got a break and got to 30 degrees. Feels like shorts and flip-flop weather.
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Hi Senor File,
nice pics of the Montana version of God's Country! Your link to the Aeneas quad map didn't work for me, would like to see that map. I guess you are somewhere up around Libby or Kalispell. Got a question about your Mount Aeneas.
Aeneas is the name of several prominent geographic features here in the Washington State version of God's Country where I live (see photo). We have the Aeneas Valley, Aeneas Creek, Aeneas Mountain and Aeneas Lake. These were all named after Chief Aeneas (ca.1860's) of the Okanogan/Columbia tribes. I wonder if there is any connection? The local Colville Confederated Tribes which includes the Joseph band of the Nez Perce have close historical ties in trade and linguistics with various Indian bands in Northern Idaho and Western Montana. So I am just wondering if you can tell me how your Mount Aeneas got it's name? Could it be the same wise old Indian?
Here's a pic from my neck 'o the woods, it is the Similkameen River, a mile or two south of the Canadian border and about 10 miles upstream from its confluence with the Okanogan river. Part of the old homelands of the chiefs Moses, Tonasket, Aeneas and Sarsapkin.
Big mountains, big streams, big blue sky. Few people. Good fishing.
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Quick question: How do you pronounce Aeneas? Just curious.
Just kidding you, beautiful shots.
Mt Aeneas -Gorgeous
Beautiful!! I like snow & mountain pics...I just don't like stepping out into the cold weather that goes along with them. 😐
Here was my view yesterday...Not sure what the mountains name is in the corner there but a lot of hikers were going up and down it! They looked like ants. 🙂 
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Steve, actually that's a pretty good question about pronounciation of Aeneas. Around these parts it is "EE-nee-us". I don't know how its pronounced in the country of Rankin File. That is actually one of the questions I had for him, but forgot to include it in my post. If Rankin responds, maybe he'll tell us.
The original Aeneas is a figure in Greek mythology, a Trojan hero, the son of Aphrodite. See Virgil's "Aeneid".
WOW, just WOW, man!!! I'd love to be mellow and taking that all in.....in person. Thanks for the pics.
Mt Aeneas -Gorgeous
Angel, I don't know which photo you were referring to as regards snow and ice and stepping out into it, but as for my photo of the Similkameen River and Mount Chopaka, it was taken in late spring-- the temperature was about 70°F, shirtsleeve weather. Elevation where I took the pic is about 2,000 feet (MSL) but the top of Mt. Chopaka is about 8,000 feet. Unlike your Hawaii photo (which is beautiful), there aren't any ant-like hikers climbing up Chopaka. Only way to get there is by horseback or I guess you could get there by helicopter these days. Around 1950, my great-uncle Ross shot a black bear up on the back side of that mountain. Shot it right from the saddle of his horse. Took him two days to pack it back down to Loomis WA, which is only 10 miles as the crow flies. Then he made a nice rug out of it. That bear rug is still keeping feet warm in the Sinlahekin Valley to this day, a great use of natural resources.
Mt Aeneas -Gorgeous
> the temperature was about 70°F, shirtsleeve weather.
I always found it funny how a place can be warm and still have snow on the ground.
Reminds me of the time my mom came to visit us in Roseburg during the summer. I took her to Crater Lake and told her "Mom it's gonna be warm up there. Short are OK!" Well when we start go get higher up there and the snow is feets high on both sides of us, she starts whining at me about wearing shorts! That was until we got to Crater Lake. Soon as she stepped out of the car she was just flabbergasted that there was 12 feet of snow pack and about 85°F outside!
She climbed up on top of the snow and demanded I take pics of her in the snow, in SHORTS so her friends and family back east would believe that she wore shorts in the snow. hehehe I still have that pic somewhere...should scan it someday and post it. 🙂
All those places are almost...almost mind you...as pretty as Tennessee.
