Brooke Johnston

Last weekend I took a camping trip with some of my college friends and had a rude awakening, and it wasn't just that storm clouds had followed us.

When I came home for winter break my freshman year of college, all I ate was meat. Steak, chicken, hamburgers - any type of meat I could get my hands on. I didn't care what kind as long as it was meat.

I can remember the first time I went to the fair pretty clearly. I was 5, painfully shy and stuck on a swinging bridge in the middle of an obstacle course during a windstorm. Somehow, that day only made me love the fair more. It was probably because I got to watch my mom battle her way to the top to collect me, her screaming child, unwilling to let a carnival employee help me to the ground. From t

Montana is one of the most incredible states I've ever lived in. Just saying the word Montana makes you think of trees, river activities and wide-open spaces that are iconic to the Big Sky State. But, when it really comes down to it, the people themselves are what truly make the state unique.

When you think about Justin Bieber there are probably a few things that come to mind, his relationship with Selena Gomez, all the trouble he's been in lately, and of course - his hair.

Floating the Clark Fork, using clean portable restrooms, and getting sausage from a mountain man who traps beavers may seem normal for all of us who live in Montana. For the Barenaked Ladies, Ben Fold's Five, Guster, and Boothby Graffoe it came as a bit of a pleasant surprise.