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<a href="http://www.thearticlesense.com/article/Encounter-With-A-Moose/" target="_blank">Get Paid to Submit Article like "Encounter With A Moose"</a><br /><br />In the year 2000 wildfires burned across a large part of Montana and the United States. Raven and I camped three months in the mountains of Montana, just outside the towns of Wisdom and Jackson. <br /> <br /> This National Forest site was spared from fire, though areas within fifty miles away burned. Maybe it was the prayers of the twenty thousand souls who gathered in those mountains that summer for a peace and healing gathering. The Rainbow Family of Living Light annual gathering of the tribes came to Montana in the year 2000. It was a summer filled with intensities, and magic, some say. The people prayed for rain to come in the area, and it came. For Raven and me, we were spellbound by these mountains and had no desire to venture back into Babylon, or the world, as rainbows called it. <br /> <br /> Once the gathering ended and the last folks left the mountain, we were faced with a dilemma. Should we go back to the cities where some of our relatives lived and return to a normal life? Or should we continue our spiritual pilgrimage we started that spring when first we ventured out onto Moose Mountain in Montana? <br /> <br /> The choice was obviously clear.<br /> <br /> We prayed for guidance on where to go next. Having driven just about fifty miles from the town of Wisdom, we came upon a turn off that really moved us. It was a box canyon just outside of Anaconda, Montana. Knowing little else about it except that is where the spirit was guiding our footsteps, we traveled onward.<br /> <br /> What wonders of nature and God awaited us here! Not only was this canyon an historic site for mining of different kinds, for pioneers, it was a historic waterfall and moose refuge. These huge creatures, not often seen by people, abounded in this place. Moose could be seen grazing with their young right within the confines of the designated primitive camping areas. While driving up the mountain to the canyon, we passed several moose along the roadside. Amazing, I thought!<br /> <br /> Having decided to stay for a while, which turned out to be two weeks, we picked a campsite along the stream. Anxious to explore our surroundings, we followed the trail upstream to an amazing discovery. A beautiful waterfall cascading down from the high ground forest area tantalized our senses. Raven had to scale the side of the rock face cliff along the waterfall when he discovered the cave above. I could see this would be an adventure filled experience, and one I was not anxious to see end.<br /> <br /> Little did I know that we would yet discover other amazing secrets hidden in this almost forgotten place. Secrets like a cabin built fifty years ago by a father and son who loved this canyon. Story goes the cabin was raided one year by a black bear who got a little too hungry.<br /> <br /> An abandoned decayed vehicle from the 1940’s had a story to tell. I was certain of it. The old mining tales were evident all about the place, from the half buried roads and trails to remnants left behind by the people who once lived and thrived in the mountain refuge.<br /> <br /> The most exhilarating experience of all was the close encounter with a moose waiting for Raven. I’ll write more about that tomorrow.<br /> <br>http://www.mountainspiritproductions.org http://themidnightwriter.wordpress.com