Ron Mills, Montana Outfitting Legend

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Back by popular demand: Ron Mills, an outfitter, hunting guide and packer in the Bob Marshall Wilderness since 1959, returns for Round Two in the BHA Podcast & Blast! Ron has authored a new book called Under the Biggest Sky of All, 75 Years on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, a raucous and astoundingly funny account of his adventures as a guide, horseman and packer, farrier and ranch hand in some of the wildest country left on the planet. (Hal wrote the forward to the book, as seen in the spring 2019 issue of Backcountry Journal.) Ron and Hal discuss the book, life in the saddle and in 20 different camps across the Bob, and what it is like to work with a man who turns out to be a coldblooded American serial killer.

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0:00.0	I think it would be wonderful if people would start collecting the old timers stories because more and more I get older you're losing
0:17.0	a mass of adventure and experience and it has direct bearing on what people do today and they don't know it.
0:27.0	All of a sudden you break out on that Basin Creek airstrip in that country just opens up. You're looking right at Wood Tick and
0:35.4	Jumbo mountain just a place you always got to take your hat off and just thank the
0:40.2	Lord that you're seeing it again.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:44.0	This is Hal Herring with Backcountry Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blast.
0:49.0	It's, well, we're right after big game season.
0:53.7	Oh, it must be the almost first of December.
0:57.3	We're in Augusta, Montana.
0:59.7	And I'm with, we got a return with Ron Mills of Mills Wilders Adventures that was one of our most popular
1:07.6	podcast last year and I brought him back to talk about a big old change that we've done.
1:15.0	Ron's published this book of kind of memories of 75 years on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana.
1:24.8	And it was a totally unexpected book.
1:28.0	So I wanted to bring him back and talk about that
1:31.0	and let people know it was out there. I've been reading it. I think I'm on the second
1:37.3	reading now. I was listening to my son Harold Reed in the kitchen and laughing at about 11 30 at night down there
1:45.0	and we were trying to figure out what he was doing and he had a hold of your book.
1:50.0	So Ron, thanks for coming back, man.
1:53.0	Well, thanks.
1:54.0	Glad to be here, hell.
1:56.0	I'm, and I know we talked about this, the writing that you were working on just barely back in that day and you'd publish that stuff in
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