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Abruptly rising above town, the Mission Mountains, on St. Ignatius' eastern flank, soar upwards nearly 7,000 feet in less than 10 miles from the valley floor, ranking as one of the greatest ...
The Redhorn Fire burning 7 miles northeast of St. Ignatius in the Mission Mountains was mapped at 281 acres Friday afternoon. Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:05:38 GMT (1736593538972) Story Infinite Scroll ...
ST. IGNATIUS — St. Ignatius sits in the southern reaches of the lush Mission Valley and is watched over by the towering Mission Mountains. A humble town with a rich backstory, the establishment ...
ST. IGNATIUS – When Stacey Thoft-Plimmer has a rough day at work, she comes home and checks how many grizzly bears are hanging around her dad's place. "It's a stress-reliever," Thoft-Plimmer ...
The St. Ignatius Mission Church is a marvel, inside and out. Travelers on U.S. 93 know it as the landmark red brick church that appears after their breath is taken away by the stunning view of the ...
Mission Mountain NRA Rodeo – June 27-28 at the Polson fairgrounds; action begins at 6 p.m. with mutton bustin' and the rodeo ...
by NBC Montana Staff Tue, August 2nd 2022 at 8:32 PM A small lightning-caused wildfire is burning high in the Mission Mountains 7 miles northeast of St. Ignatius.
ST. IGNATIUS – Sister Mary Stauder still commutes to work, but these days it’s a one-minute walk, not the 50-mile round-trip drive she had been making. Here in the shadows of the Mission ...
A few miles northeast of the Ravalli Junction, U.S. Highway 93 crests a steep hill and WHAM! the most amazing view of the Mission Mountains smacks you in the face. This abrupt skyward reach -- a ...
Thus the church at the St. Ignatius Mission became more important than the one at St. Mary's. St. Ignatius Mission was founded in 1854, ... another of Montana's great Rocky Mountain ranges.
About 850 people call this small agricultural town home. In the late ’90s, a few Amish families moved to St. Ignatius from the backwoods of northwest Montana in pursuit of more open living in the wide ...
ST. IGNATIUS — St. Ignatius sits in the southern reaches of the lush Mission Valley and is watched over by the towering Mission Mountains. A humble town with a rich backstory, the establishment ...