As part of the Adopt a Highway Program, the Southwest
Montana Climbers Coalition is responsible for maintaining a two-mile stretch of
highway in the northern reaches of Gallatin Canyon—quite an appropriate
location, as Gallatin Canyon holds much of the area’s sport and trad routes.
On Saturday, May 4 of this year, a bunch of climbers—including
Bozeman Climbing Team members and their families, as well as the Junior
Mountaineering Team—gathered to collect trash along between mile markers 67 and
69 of US 191.
It turned out to be a perfect day for picking up pee
bottles: it was drizzly enough to make climbing impossible, but not so wet as
to be miserable. After about four hours of clean-up, the crew managed to rid
the road’s shoulders of nearly all trash.
