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| July's full moon rises Monday evening above a mule deer buck on Blacktail Mountain |
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| Monday's early-morning moonset over Gunsight Mtn. |
Our "
Full Buck Moon" was less like a deer and more like a hide-and-seek chamelion. The full moon set before dawn on Monday, falling from a pure blue, Montana summer sky just before the sun made its appearance. The full moon returned at sunset later the same day. It rose silently into a salmon-colored sky that was slowly filling with drift smoke from the "
Red Shale" wildfire, deep within the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The fire reappeared from the hidden embers of a lightening strike five days earlier.
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| Monday's moonrise at sunset, above Flathead Lake and the Swan Mountain Range |
