Seconded!

And once you get acclimated, it doesn't affect you anymore. It's not like we're all perma-impaired because of altitude sickness.

FACT CHECK: the book and film versions of A River Runs Through It were set in Missoula, but the filming was done near Bozeman and on a couple of other rivers in Montana that aren't the Blackfoot. I've been to one of the filming sites. If you're up near Big Sky, there's a lady who sells life-size concrete statues of…

I was thinking more whale or one of those bitey cannon-ball things from the Super Mario Bros games, but I now that you mention it...

A company I used to work for did a Biggest Loser style challenge, which I joined because I was training to compete in a sport already and figured, hey, maybe I'd get prizes for doing what I'm already doing.

Really? It makes complete sense if you've ever spent much time in Missoula.

Former Bobcat (who pretends to be an Oredigger and is moving to Griz-town in July) over here. And yeah, it's pretty surreal seeing Montana news on a site like Jezebel. Good that this is getting major news coverage, though, so it doesn't keep getting swept under the big sky's rug.