Monture Gathering

Please join us for the BCHMT Monture Gathering August 19 – 22

With the past two conventions cancelled due to Covid, we have missed you. The BCHMT officers and state directors invite you to join us at the Monture trailhead. Everyone is welcome and can join us for any part of the weekend that they are able.

Thursday: arrive after noon and ride, socialize around the campfire
Friday: ride, horse training and packing demos in the late afternoon and evening, socialize
around the campfire, campfire chat with Smoke Elser
Saturday: ride, dinner and campfire, Dr Eva Maggie will have a short presentation about the UM
Wilderness & Policy class, for which BCHMT provided scholarships
Sunday: ride and leave for home

Dinner Saturday evening will be pork roast, chicken, beans, green salad, potato salad, corn bread
and desert. Trish and Mike Foster will be cooking and Bob Marshall Wilderness Outfitters will
be bringing desert.

The Monture Guard Station is about 8 miles north of Highway 200 near Ovando MT. It is a
trailhead for the south end of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. We have permission to use
the guard station and there is a very nice public trailhead. The public trailhead has several corrals
as well as feed bunks and hitchrails. There are several trails in the area for all riding abilities.
There is plenty of room to set up your highline or portable corrals.

Please bring hay for your horses and there is water in Monture Creek.

Please bring food for yourself and your family for the weekend.

Dinner Saturday evening will be $10 per person. Please send your name, number of people in your party and $10 per person to:

BCHMT- Monture
2130 9th St W #109
Columbia Falls MT 59912

Deadline to register for Saturday evening dinner is August 5, 2021.

We are still in the planning process. Wade Murphy will teach a half day horse training clinic. He
can have up to 10 riders so if you would like to ride in his clinic please let him know
406.431.1717 . Everyone is welcome to watch if they are
interested.

Some of the short demos we will have are packing, trailer loading and horse catching.

If you have a talent that you would like to demonstrate please let Greg Schatz know,
406.261.5450 and we’ll see if we can get you in the schedule.

If you don’t get your Saturday evening dinner reservation in on time you are welcome to join us
as long as you aren’t planning to eat.